Jared Allen doesn't like Detroit...but he wears a mullet, so his argument is invalid

Written by Al Beaton | 08 December 2011

The Vikings best defensive player, Jared Allen, outspoken as ever, told a Twin Cities radio station what he thinks of Detroit.

Mlive's Justin Rogers:

I don't like going to Detroit," Allen said. "I'll be honest, it's gloomy, it sucks. Everything is brown and then there is snow on the ground. There's like Brownstones everywhere and I'm like, 'Awesome.' I don't know, I couldn't do it. If I had to live in Detroit, I think I'd just drown myself in the river that was across the way.

Allen didn't stop there, crapping all over New Orleans as well...

"I'm not trying to be mean, but it's just depressing when I go there," he continued. "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.' "

I really don't have much of a response to Allen's diatribe, other than, "Yawn." At the very least, Allen didn't use the third world line to describe Detroit. It's so been done...and done...and done.

Mullets don't go over in Detroit...or in the 21st century.

I've lost track of the number of times an outsider has bashed Detroit and environs. I lost the ability to generate righteous indignation over this subject a long time ago. It's a trope long in tooth. It takes a lot more than saying "Detroit sucks" to get my hackles up at this point.

It's easy to think the worst of this area when all you see of it is I-94 and I-75. But until you have seen more of ANY given area, it's damn ignorant to bash a place millions of people love to live. 

But one quote stood out.

"it's gloomy, it sucks. Everything is brown and then there is snow on the ground."

I think Allen described a Minnesota winter to a T. But that's different!

To be honest, I'm more concerned about the Lions' plans to stop Allen from pancaking Matthew Stafford than anything Allen has to say about the city of Detroit...or about anything else.