Detroit prepares for winter storm on the eve of Super Bowl

AP ^ | 02/04/06 | TOM KRISHER

[mainepatsfan]

The NFL films video on that SB opens with fans freezing as they made their way into the Silver Dome.

[netmilsmom]

This is the umteenth storm they have predicted this winter. It's a lousy 8 inches. If it wasn't Detroit, it wouldn't be a problem at all.

Boston has over 500 snow plows.
Chicago has about the same.
Cleveland has 300.

All of Wayne county has 50. They borrow them from the burbs when a big snow falls. It would serve them right if we didn't give them. However, I don't see that happening.

When we lived in Wayne county, they NEVER plowed our street. We were not in Detroit proper. We always had two ruts in the ice down the middle of our street. I can't tell you how many times we dug out the neighbors. By the time we moved, the street was talking about all of us renting a plow for the next winter.

[Caramelgal]

It's just snow for C's sake not thermonuclear Armageddon. Get over it and suck it up. It’s February after all and half the country gets snow this time of year.

But then again if Detroit’s public works and snow removal is anything like it is here in Baltimore, then God help them.

Nothing can compare to a Penn State- Notre Dame game at Happy Valley I attended back in the Eighties. Snow squalls, 50 mile an hour winds, and a sub zero wind chill. Despite dressing for the weather, a great big tailgate breakfast and more than a few hot toddies, by half-time I was numb from the waist down – now that was football – We are Penn State!

[cripplecreek]

They'd been calling for it to start since one this afternoon and so far all it's doing is raining.

I'm about 70 miles west and we're getting a little snow mixed with rain but it just doesn't feel like snowstorm weather. I'm thinking it's mostly superbowl hype.

[John W]

Pre Game Festivities Underway---

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5306988?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=14

[1rudeboy]

For practical purposes, most of Detroit is a vacant lot.

[ops33]

Yeah, like Lambeau Field!

[ShadowDancer]

I'm a little less than 10 miles west and that's about what we have here. It's damp and chilly and ugly but hardly treacherous.

[FreePaul]

They had the super bowl in Houston a couple of years ago. It's plenty warm here. I'd just as soon they had all the super bowl games as far North as they have stadiums. I'm just sorry that Detroit has a covered statium. It would be fun to see them playing in the snow.

[Uncle Hal]

My understanding the SB was awarded to Detroit because the Ford family, owner of the Lions, had built a new stadium and the NFL wanted to reward the family and the city with the SB. Also, the auto industry is the biggest advertiser on TV for NFL games and this in support of them considering all the problems they have been having.

[JOE6PAK]

This can't be good for the hookers.

[Kieri]

I'm two counties west of the Metro Detroit area, and it stopped raining here about an hour ago. There's so much standing water, if the temp drops the snow will be the least of their worries. I don't even want to think about the ice.

[ShadowDancer]

ROTFL

[Supernatural]

The snow won't stop any Steeler fans. They are used to it and they are tough.

[ShadowDancer]

I know, my backyard looks like a virtual lake right now.

[BW2221]

The NFL and William Clay Ford, the Lions owner, used the offer of the Super Bowl to blackmail the area into constructing a new stadium. The main thing that was wrong with the Silverdome, the Lions old home, was that it didn't have enough luxury boxes. There's nothing like taxpayers subsidizing a new stadium for a senile billionaire, who has mismanaged the franchise for more than 40 years.

They are currently doing the same thing in Kansas City, offering the prospect of a Super Bowl if the city builds a domed stadium.

[savedbygrace]

Unfortunately for the diehard pigskin fan, the game is indoors.

Let me be the one to break this to you: It hasn't been a pigskin for a number of years; it's a cowhide now.

[Springman]

Snowing in Warren, but not sticking on the roads yet. Have the salt ready.

Bet the Super Bowl parties are loving this weather. Paris Hilton may have to wear some clothes.

[DarkSavant]

I can't stand watching football indoors. Football is supposed to be nitty gritty, with all the elements tearing away at the field as well as the players. At Chicago got some great game to watch when the wrath of winter came.

[radiohead]

What, in Detroit? Haven't been near there other than the airport in years. My son used to summer in Dexter and his grandparents would only take him to Greek Town and the ball games, so I haven't heard anything about good restaurants.

My most recent time in Michigan was living in A2 96-99. My son lived there until 2000. When I was trying to get out of town, it always seemd more interesting to go to Chicago than go to Detroit.

Detroit seems to me to be a midwest version of Philly - old, decaying, corrupt. I'm sure there are some nice parts - I saw a few back in the 70s when I first lived in Michigan - but you couldn't pay me to live there now.

Feel free to diss Seattle or Philly. My feelings won't be hurt.