A lot of people talk smack about the city of Detroit. Vikings defensive end, Jared Allen, is another one of those Motor city haters.
“I don’t like going to Detroit,” he told KFAN in Minneapolis this week. “It’s gloomy, it sucks, everything’s brown. There’s snow on the ground. If I had to live in Detroit, I think I’d drown myself in the river.”
If I’m not mistaken, Minnesota is one of the coldest states in the midwest and see’s Winter in late Fall. He went on adding more derogatory comments about two cities that fight to stay alive.
“There’s two cities like I don’t go out to eat or don’t do anything. It’s Detroit and New Orleans. New Orleans looks like I’m driving through a third-world country every time I get off the plane, I’m like, ‘Oh, flak jacket.’ I’m trying to get down. I’m like, ‘Ah, crap, I can’t carry my gun here. This sucks.’”
There’s a lot that can be said about Detroit and New Orleans. Both have cities have struggled thro...
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