For years, Detroit has been advancing to Thanksgiving dinners beyond the country: The Lions, the city's NFL franchise, accept played (often haplessly) on civic television as a amount of tradition. This year, the Lions are arena actual able-bodied for once, yet their admirers are not all blessed campers.
As we reported yesterday, an online address has emerged to beef this year's Lions Turkey Day game. Specifically, some admirers are clamoring for the aggregation to yield aback its action to accept Nickelback accomplish as the game's halftime entertainment. What, no Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Eminem, Aretha, Kid Rock? "Detroit is home to so abounding abundant musicians and they chose Nickelback?!?!?!" reads allotment of the petition.
Now, one Detroit native, body accompanist Mayer Hawthorne, is wading into this afire issue. "Detroit is a huge allotment of aggregate I do," he told Rolling Stone as he was acid this tongue-in-cheek attack video. "Not even just in music. It's a big allotment of activity for me. That's area I grew up, and it's the city-limits that I love. I wrote an anthem, an ode to Detroit on my new record."
Hawthorne is a diehard Lions fan who's accepted to tweet his passion during games. "The capital affair that we absolutely charge in Detroit appropriate now is hope," he says. "Thank God for the Detroit Lions."
To articulation your approval for Mayer Hawthorne's campaign, cheep @MayerHawthorne and cover the hashtag #Mayer4Detroit.
Video by Eric Helton, Matthew Murphy
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