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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Sister cities

Bob Marshall:
Hey, Detroit: New Orleans knows why you love your Lions. It's not just the winning record. Not just Matthew Stafford's 5,000 yards, the amazing athleticism of Calvin Johnson or the Superman strength of Ndamukong Suh.

It's everything that's been thrown at your town for the past decade. It's what the rest of the nation has been thinking and saying about you and your town. The way "Detroit" has become a slur, an insult, the lowest place you could accuse someone of being from. The "Why would you live there?" look. The sneer.


Tonight's game won't be so much like kissing your sister as it will be like beating her upside the head with a board full of rusty nails. Which is a lot of fun, actually. Try it sometime.

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