Heading into mid-October with two winning sports teams, Detroit seems to be getting all kinds of attention lately.
But it’s not just the Tigers and Lions that are garnering all the national spotlight and headlines. Many writers and journalists around the country have been drawing deeper (albeit similar and a bit cliche at this point) connections between the city’s sports teams and the city itself.
It’s a familiar theme: our winning sports teams represent the unyielding hope, undying pride and overwhelming optimism the people of Detroit never seem to lose.
Yes, it’s a familiar theme that has been played out before, (I wrote about it many times) but it doesn’t mean it isn’t still very true.
These days, people think about Detroit a little differently.
A new spirit is heard in the euphoria for its professional sports teams: The Tigers are in the American League Championship Series, while the Lions are 4-0 for the first time since 1980 — and playing on Monday Night Football for the first time in a decade.
Read the whole story in today’s edition of USA Today here.
