Lately there has been consistent outcry for the Detroit Lions president of operations Matt Millen to be fired. While it intrigues me that many people across this blog site nationwide feel Millen is the real problem. But as a fellow (313-er) I am here to tell you the big problem is with the big game.

Nine out of ten times the Super Bowl is held in a bustling warm large city - last year it was at midsize Jacksonville and this year the Super Bowl committee set their sights even lower when they chose Detroit.

Now don't get me wrong I love Detroit sports, and I love the city itself. There is nothing I would like to see more than the city to be restored to the glory it had decades ago with all four major sports teams competing in downtown venues. Still, I notice that this will probably never be the case, when the residents of Detroit elect thugs like Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Kilpatrick's name in the metro Detroit area is synonomous with wild parties, loose spending, shady deals, and roughhousing towards reporters - but after the Super Bowl the whole nation- not just Detroit will realize the problems with the Motor City.

The All-Star game  and recent Stanley Cup championships and NBA championships have cast a spotlight on the city of Detroit, but when the Patriots and the Panthers square off in this years Super Bowl (yeah I am that bold) - there will be a shadow cast over the city.

Travelers will notice the bums sleeping under highway overpasses, they will see the neglected roads, abandon houses, broken windows, and empty factories. They will see the hookers - maybe the same ones who stand outside the gates of Comerica park, and they will see the crazy blind man sleeping on the sidewalk in Greektown. During the day they will see empty streets, empty businesses and empty restaraunts as all the customers have moved west - to cities where mayors don't spend $80,000 leasing an SUV.

All these negative images crowd my mind when I think of the bad things we will hear about Detroit in the next couple of weeks from the national media. I realize I have used this platform to describe the pathetic state Detroit is in- but I am doing so with out the cheapshots that Jimmy Kimmel finds so easy. Come February I pray for a snowstorm to blanket the graffiti, the brown grass, the empty fields and the dirty sidewalks - so maybe for a few days Detroit won't look so bad. But once the Super Bowl leaves town and the media stops bringing up the '84 Detroit Tigers riots metro Detroiters will return to the realization that thier downtown area is a slum.

For those of you not around the Detroit area you haven't head about the Super Bowl planning committee and how they plan to create fake lighting in the city the week of the festivities to make it look brighter. So I am here to tell all fellow bloggers that the real problem is not the Detroit Lions and Matt Millen. The real problem is the Super Bowl is coming to Detroit.

Detroits schools are a sham, the city council is a wreck and public works are almost non-existant and like the afformentioned problems they aren't Matt Millen's fault - they are Kwame Kilpatrick's. The man who runs our city. Is the same man who is under investigation for voter fraud. The same man who "raised the roof" when he met George W. Bush. The Same man who wore a NBA basketball jacket to the Thanksgiving Day parade.

So now that I have told you what the real problem is do me a favor. Cut Detroiters some slack. We've heard the cliches -and at this point there is nothing we can do about them- our only hope may be the same small hope the Detroit Lions have.

Somebody get Barry on the phone. We need a new mayor. We need a new football team.