Poor Detroit is on the receiving end of a lot of bad things these days. It's the most impoverished city in the country. It's the most violent city in the country. The housing crisis there is so nasty that houses are actually being sold for considerably less than cars, with some of them going for around $10,000. Yet, though it all, the people of Detroit can go down to their waterfront to visit Joe Louis Arena for an escape in NHL hockey, where they get the pleasure of watching the Detroit Red Wings. … more
As a Michigan transplant living in Chicago, I am a little torn sometimes about my sports. Not torn as in who to root for, because no matter where I live I will always stay true to my hometown teams, but torn because it would be so much more fun to root for a team in a city that you lived in so you could enjoy all the festivities around town. Chicago is a great sports town, but I can't get into the local teams here, mostly because all the pro teams are bitter rivals of the Detroit teams, since … more