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February 9 • 2006
First Round
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s the last
the downtown area have been
• planeload
repaved and an inch of paving will
of Super
usually last a year, I wonder if the
Bowl XL guests lifts
1/52 of an inch really lasted all week?
off from Detroit
• The last time Detroit held a Super
Metro, and the
Bowl, "Up With People" performed
security force of
during halftime. Do you think that
10,000 pack up
ABC would have preferred them
their Kevlar vests,
Harry Kirsbaum instead of the Rolling Stones this
automatic weapons
Columnist
time around?
and bomb-sniffing
If not, are the censors so worried
dogs, Detroiters are left with memo-
about complaints from the American
ries of a super week.
Farriily Association that they silenced
Here are some thoughts:
two words from two songs sung by a
• Watching Super Bowl coverage on
62-year-old grandpa who wore a belly
local news last week was a tremen-
shirt?
dous departure from what we're used
• During a walk at Somerset
to. If your only news came from local
Collection in Troy on Saturday, I hap-
cameras last week, no drug busts, no
pened upon a crowd of about 150
alcohol-related car accidents and no
over-enthusiastic, mostly young, most-
house fires occurred during Super
ly African American women squealing
Bowl week; and the only killing that
with delight at the sight of Usher buy-
took place in Detroit was Super Bowl-
ing skin care products. The store was
related, caused by a pushing incident.
under lockdown condition, with two
Nothing else mattered.
security officers at the door.
• We were told to put on a happy
When Usher departed, the sentries
face for our guests — down-
closed down the
play our troubles and show
skyway until he
them that we are a city with
made it safely to
promise.
a clothing store
• Once Diddy, Paris,•enna,
on the first floor
Denzel and Jimmy and the rest
on the other side
of them are gone, the local
of the mall,
news helicopters will resume
where the mass
hovering over the scenes of
of women took
homes ablaze and pot hole-
up positions in
induced traffic accidents.
front and above
• If you happened to spot
the store.
what could be the person of
I wonder if
your dreams at the Vault, in
Usher deals with
the Manufacturer's Bank
adulation from
Building on Fort Street last
crowds like that
week, and are thinking about return-
all the time, or is this a Detroit thing?
ing there next week on the chance that
• I wonder if all the stars really had
he/she will be there, don't bother.
a good time here or if they were just
The Vault was as temporary as the
being nice because we were trying so
hand stamp that got you in the door.
damned hard? And I wonder if they
According to a National Public Radio
would have the same opinion of
story I heard on Saturday, the aban-
Detroit if they got to watch the local
doned building was renovated at a
news we usually see every night.
cost of $1 million to host four Super
Now that the SWAT teams are off
Bowl-related parties in hopes of dou-
the rooftops, and the Detroit Police
bling profits in one week. The dance
Department is short-handed again, I
floor, the bar, the booze, the sound
wonder how many people from the
system and the lights are all gone.
suburbs will grab the kids for a skate
Nothing left but the rats.
at Campus Martius next weekend?
• About 50 of the 70 new storefronts
What will it take to bring them
found around Ford Field will be per-
back?
manently missing by the time you
read this.
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
• Although some of the streets in
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com .