Did you watch the games on television Sunday with renewed interest? It was fun to see signs like "Next Stop Detroit" and "Detroit Hawk City," wasn't it? Although we have been hearing about this Super Bowl for years, it took on a certain tangible reality when the network announcers bellowed: "The Steelers are going to Detroit!" or Holmgren screamed the fans "are all coming to Detroit with us!" We've heard similar sentences before, with similar inflection, but it's usually: "They're going to New Orleans!" or "We're going to Miami!"

Now it's Detroit. Nice. I know it's just a sentence, but a crown is just a crown, too. It's still the difference between looking at a king and being one.

So the guests of honor have been announced for a Motown party that has been scheduled for years. It will be original. It will be unpredictable. It will be the franchise that once gave us Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann, Franco Harris against the franchise that once gave us, uh, Jim Zorn.

And in a nice twist of geographic fate, the most celebrated player likely will be a beefy running back who went to Mackenzie High School and spent part of his televised news conference answering questions about our hometown -- and his.

"What's great about Detroit?" he said. "It's a great city. It's a great city, and you all will see when you get there in two weeks."

Couldn't have said it better ourselves.