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XL Prices

Super Bowl XL may fade gently into that good night, but Detroit will never disappear from our minds. And foremost in our Motor City mad minds is the following: how much did actual  fans--not execs getting freebies--pay for tickets to yesterday's game?

From an unscientific poll of fans conducted by the Detroit Free Press, it looks like there was a two-tiered pricing system. Anyone lucky enough to win the season ticket lottery paid face value for tickets, which was $600. Everyone else, either through ticket brokers or ebay, paid about $2500.

Also available on ebay for $2500? A 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, pictured above. We know which one we would rather have had, and it's not the one that involved Matt Hasselbeck. It's very hard to argue with a blue velour interior.

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Jaunted: Detroit's Week

Sick of Detroit yet?

Story Round-Up
·   We've Got Tonight [Jaunted]
·   Pigskin Lovers? [Jaunted]
·   Super Bowl Party XL Rundown [Jaunted]
·   Wayne County Wonderful [Jaunted]
·   The Detroit Glass is Half Full Part II [Jaunted]
·   Rust Belt Rampage [Jaunted]
·   Detroit Returns Fire [Jaunted]

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We've Got Tonight

It's time for Jaunted's Friday Detroit coverage. Has the pre-game show started yet?

Deadspin wonders where all the negative Detroit coverage has been this week. Was there a PR conspiracy? We think that journalists were simply too sated from their football-shaped salamis to get cranky.

DetroitWonk reports that Jimmy Kimmel made good on leaving fans out in the cold earlier in the week, giving them tickets to a show the next day. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick--sometimes described as the third most hated mayor in America--also presented Kimmel with the key to the city.  

Meanwhile, there are whispers that Bob Seger will perform at one or both of the Kid Rock shows this weekend (before Kid Rock is helicoptered to the Sports Illustrated Party on Sunday). Let's hope there some Night Moves in the cards.

And in naked-lady-party news, you may have missed your chance to get tickets to the SI party on ebay, but tickets to the Penthouse party are still available, for $2,380. Perhaps the inflated price is some kind of classiness surcharge?

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Oi to the World

Coverage from Slate of British television reality series From Ladette to Lady, which airs on IFC this week. Rest assured that when Fox remakes the show, they'll call it When Girls Attack!

For travelers who have yet to encounter this beast, either in her native England or on holiday somewhere like Ibiza, they are the British equivalent of America's Girls Gone Wild. Think flashing, binge drinking and the like, only with an accent that Americans cannot help but perceive as sophisticated. The show follows their escapades as they are molded into proper young women.

It's something to keep in mind this weekend, during the extensive Super Bowl parties thrown not only by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models, but by Maxim, FHM, Penthouse, and Playboy as well. According to the Post, SI plans to fly Kid Rock by helicopter to the party after his concert on Sunday and Maxim will have a giant bar in the shape of a pinball machine. Pretty fancy stuff all around.

No matter what happens this weekend, remember ladies--act too much like a ladette and you could get shipped to finishing school by a reality TV scout in attendance.  

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Pigskin Lovers?

The Super Bowl XL excitement is building today, as media coverage focuses on how annoying the media coverage of Jerome Bettis is. Very tautological.

Meanwhile, most A-List celebrities are not scheduled to arrive in town until tomorrow night, but when they do, Little Caesar's (which is based in Detroit) will be ready for them. They'll be unveiling the "Meat Trio" pizza for the big game. It's unclear which meats those will be, of yet. Perhaps there will be a promotional tie-in with the guy who is making football-shaped salamis?

Also, it's not only Jenna Jameson's party that's a hot ticket: a VIP pass to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit party has a $1,200 asking price on ebay. Those models won't be naked, either.

[Image via tombland/Flickr]

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Super Bowl XL Party Run Down

Friday February 3
Jenna Jameson's NFL Experience
A Vivid/ClubJenna Bowl Party will be held at the Zoo Bar in downtown Detoit.  It will include a lingerie fashion show, some sort of open bar and signings + appearances from top adult stars. Tickets start at $500 and are still available.  

There will be no nudity at the party.  Jenna comments:

That's not what it's really about. I just accept myself and I think a lot of women out there kind of relate to me. Everybody is sexual; I just happen to be really honest about it.

Free booze and clothed porn stars--now that sounds like a dangerous combination.

Saturday February 4
Shady Bowl Super Party
Mr. 8 Mile himself will host the Shady Bowl Super Party at the State Theatre.  A laundry list of hip hop stars are scheduled to perform and attend. Tickets start at $65.  

The State is just around the corner from Ford Field.

Sunday February 5
Touchdown Club
For three hours prior to kickoff the Touchdown Club will offer regional food stations, full open bar, live entertainment, and an ESPN live pre-game radio brodcast on-site.  

Touchdown Club will be held at Fox Theatre, just minutes from Ford Field.  It will cost you $950 to get inside.

The hottest ticket in town?  Leigh Steinberg's Super Bowl party--good luck scoring tix to that one.  You could always try crashing.

Oh, and tickets to the game?  Those are going for between $2225 and $143,000 according to StubHub.

If you attend any Super Bowl events, send us tips and pics will ya?

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Wayne County Wonderful

It's an explosion of Detroit coverage today!

First, we'd like to point out the excellent photos of Detroit over at SNWEB.ORG on Flickr. Let's hope that the photos in the new and improved Jaunted photo pool--which is always looking for additional submissions--are as gorgeous.

Beyond that, it looks like we're not alone in posting top ten lists about Detroit's finer qualities; there's one in the works for the Late Show with David Letterman, to run later in the week. (via DetroitWonk, who is covering Super Bowl week intensively).

Letterman isn't the only late night host who has Detroit fever--Jimmy Kimmel is taping in Detroit all week. The Detroit Free Press reports he showed his love for the citizens by making fans stand outside in the cold for two hours before sending them home because the theatre was full. In Jimmy's favor, he does prefer to roll in a City Cab, which is a Detroit institution even when Kid Rock isn't driving him.

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The Detroit Glass is Half Full Part II

[Editor's Note: See, we promised we would put up some pro-Detroit commentary, and here it is. One intrepid Detroit reader has taken the time to make a top ten list of things that visitors should check out when they are in town, none of which include egging Kid Rock's house, oddly enough. Per her request, I will refrain from making a burning car joke at any point during this post. (Isn't that Paris, anyway?) Click it forward for a smorgasbord of fine things Motown has to offer, unedited, of course.]


[Image via gsgeorge/Flickr]

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Rust Belt Rampage

Just like Jerome Bettis--word on the street is that the man is secretly from Detroit--our Super Bowl XL coverage rumbles on. First, a disclaimer: We want to run some positive things about Detroit, really, we do! So send your Detroit love our way, either in the comments or to tips@jaunted.com. It's not that bleak, people. And if you don't have Detroit love, well, send that anyway.

Our search for pro-Detroit opinion is precisely why we like to hear a little cockiness from the natives now and then. This little nugget comes from Eric Cedo, executive director of nonprofit CreateDetroit, interviewed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

"We're a lot closer to the lattes and laptops of Seattle than to the Rust Belt of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is what we used to be".

Them's fightin' words! Demolishing the former Motown Records headquarters just shows how committed Detroit is to distancing itself from Pittsburgh.

In other Detroit news, Steeler fans are forgoing the hotels in the Detroit metro area and coming to the game in RVs. Many were rented just hours after the end of the AFC Championship game, and spots for docking the behemoths are filling up fast. Better get there soon, Steeler fans, otherwise you may end up parking in Canada.


[Image via Allan M/Flickr]

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Detroit Returns Fire

The Detroit Free Press' own Mitch Albom weighs in (with 100% new content!) on what visitors to Detroit can expect during their week in town.

Apparently, natives are just as nervous about an avalanche of bad press from journalists holed up in the Motor City as visitors are about getting shot, mugged, or offered an employee discount on an American car. According to Mitch, Bourbon Street, South Beach, and, erm, downtown Jacksonville were not accurate representations of their respective towns during Super Bowl week. Instead, visitors to Detroit can expect a find an authentic American town compared to those featured in previous Super Bowl years.

Like, say, a homeless guy asking for five bucks to "watch your car". It doesn't get any more authentic than that.


[Image via shadowplay/Flickr]

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Motown Make-Believe

No surprise here--fantasy coverage of downtown Detroit's party scene from the weekend's New York Times Sunday Styles section. While Detroit has excitement to offer, it's hard to swallow that it has shed its Berlin 1945 feel for a genuine, South Beach vibe. Even Sunday Styles seems to be incredulous as they wrote the article. Here's the quote they chose from the owner Bleu Room Experience, one of the exemplars of downtown Detroit's return to glory: "Detroit's earned a real hardcore image, with the murders and crime and everything, but it's also not as bad as what people think".

If only New Jersey had this guy when they were looking for a slogan last year. Detroit, not as bad as what people think!

Look for more coverage on Jaunted this week of Detroit and the Super Bowl--just how bad will it be? We'll call it the "Debacle in Detroit", for the time being. Send any tips, horror stories, or even pro-Detroit raves to tips@jaunted.com

[Image via UrbanTiki/Flickr]

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Super Bowl XL Detroit: The Glass is Half Full Argument

Super Bowl XL is in Detroit?

What the hell is the NFL smoking?

On February 2nd bushels of NFL fans and corporate gravy trainers will have to pay $550 (face value) for a game ticket, and more importantly spend a couple of days in Detroit.

Instead of joining the bitch bandwagon we figured we would tell football fans the three things they can look forward to on their trip to Detroit:

·   The Super Bowl is downtown
First, a downtown Super Bowl means getting to and from the game should be relatively easy--at the very least options should be plentiful.

·   Casinos are close by
The "new Detroit" as the tourism wonks call it is full of full fledged casinos.  Detroit just so happens to be the largest U.S. city that offers casino gaming.

·   Cuban Cigars
Banned in the US, Cubans are legal but head over the nearby Ambassador Bridge into Windsor Canada and you can get Cubans all night long.  Pop shops like Havana Heaven should take care of your smoking needs.

·   "The Windsor Ballet"
Cigars aren't the only thing readily available in Canada.  "Windsor Ballet" is the street name for the for the all-nude clubs that pepper the Chatam street area.  The girls at Cheetah's, one of the more popular clubs are expecting to do a brisk business during Super Bowl week.

Oh, and one more thing:

Canadian law permits the exchange of money for sex between consenting adults. It doesn't allow brothels. It doesn't allow public solicitation, as in prostitutes on street corners or pimps. But it does allow for escort services, where once an escort and a client get behind closed doors, say in a hotel room, they can agree to do many things, including have sex.

Looks like the NFL does know how to entice their sales executive audience after all.  This may be the most sinful Super Bowl after all.

[image via Detroit News]

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