The Cup

I accidentally had to watch a hockey game the other night (a crowd of bulky guys crowd around the goalie and then everyone throws their hands in the air-GOAL!- I don't get why it never took off as a TV sport) and discovered that my home town team is in the Stanley Cup finals (featuring former Lewiston MAINEiac and pride of the Quebec Major Junior League and now a star of a junior major sport, Sidney Crosby) against LA guy's home town team, the Red Wings. While we are not known as Pittsburgh Guy and Detroit Guy these days, a little badinage about the respective rust belt burgs we fled is in order.

Here
is a fine comparison of the two city's relative merits from the City of Champions' perspective.
(Notwithstanding hometown loyalty, however, I make no claims about Donnie Iris being in a league with Iggy Pop although I do agree "Ann Arbor" would be a good name for a porn actress)

Best quote I read somewhere from a Pitstburgher who went to the 2006 Super Bowl- something like "I like Detroit, they're just like Cleveland but they don't try to lord it over us."