With Valentine’s Day just around the corner (does 22 days actually count as just around the corner??) Erin Rose over at Positive Detroit and Ashley Woods have 99 Reasons to Fall In Love with Detroit in the upcoming Valentine’s Day edition of Real Detroit Weekly.

A few of the many highlights from the list:

1. We have an NBA Hall of Famer as our Mayor. Cincinnati had Jerry Springer. Detroit: 1, Cincinnati: 0

16. (313) Texts From Last Night was born here (thanks for getting one past the goalie).

22. M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer … Detroit’s very own Batman and Robin.

46. Home to Vernors, the best ginger ale on Earth. Cure for tummy-aches, sweets cravings (toss in the blender with Sander’s ice cream) or the mid-week happy hour blues (on the rocks with vanilla vodka).  

49. Introducing newcomers to the epic battle between Lafayette and American Coney Island.

72. Eleven Stanley Cup Championships, 10 American League Pennant Wins, four World Series Titles, three NBA Championships. 

82. On a clear day, you can see the outline of the Ren-Cen as far north as 16 Mile while driving south on Woodward. 

See the complete list here.