Don't worry: Detroit won't be such a terrible place to hold the Super (in Off-topic)

Are these pics you have taken or pics you have found online?

Well detroit does have a high crime rate but it looks Beautiful judging by these pictures.

That second picture is sexy.

These are pictures that I took while I was in town to visit my family over the holiday. I don't know why the last pic is a half grey though... It's an amazing pic of the surreal tunnel at the airport.

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I've been in Detroit once, driving through on the morning of July 5th - after the celebrations of the previous day. I don't want to offend anyone that lives there, but it seemed like a true ghost town.

At 9am on a weekday morning, there was no one walking on the sidewalks, no cars driving on the roads - no one on their way to work. The air was cool, and there was a sort of creepy haze rising from the manhole covers. There was an erratic breeze blowing papers and leaves through the air, in seemingly random directions. The shops all had their metal gates closed, and the gates were all covered in graffiti. There were several buildings under renovation, and work being done on some roads, but these too were abandoned, and were covered with dust, making it seem like they had been abandoned for weeks, at least.

It was kind of like London in the movie 28 Days Later: it looked as though everyone had dropped what they were doing, and ran off. There were even the occasional zombie-like people, who would shuffle along after us. Unlike 28 Days Later, these weren't zombies trying to rip us to shreads, but were very hungover-looking town drunks, asking us to take pictures of them.

Quite spooky.

I'm sure the Patriots will enjoy their time there.

I live in Michigan about one hour north of Detroit, and I go there often to see the Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings play and that part of the city isn't too bad (except that parking is a nightmare). That area has attracted a lot of developers and with the nearby casinos it's an ok place to hang out. The parts of the city just outside of that ring of civility can be scary. It's poorly lit, and the buildings are rundown or abandoned. That being said most people who go to the super bowl won't be staying in Detroit as there aren't may hotels in the city. They will find there way to the suburbs, or across the river into Canada.

While I will agree that the majority of the city of Detroit is a rundown wasteland and that the pictures I have taken are of the oasis of the business district, I will not consent to the outside view of the city. There is a lot of history in that city and unfortunately most of the people that cared about preserving such history were scared away to the suburbs by the riots. So now there has been renewed interest in preserving the small fraction of what history is left there by those same people still living in the suburbs and we're still getting the negative image (mind you, I don't even live in Michigan anymore, but I did work in Detroit [yes, in the Business District] for two years and I fell in love with the city). I think that it will be a pleasant surprise for those in attendance at this year's Super Bowl to find that the area in which the game is played is actually a nice place, reminiscent of pre-riot Detroit.

Memnot you have a great point about the "outsiders view" of Detroit. Thanks to the endless slew of movie stereotypes and press coverage of the worst moments of Detroit most people across the country think that the place is a barren wasteland filled with rapists and murderers. The fact is its a city rich in history and great architecture that has fallen prey to petty fears and hate mongering. I agree that the people coming in to see the superbowl will be surprised.