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by Xav de Matos, Feb 08, 2011 5:00am PST

According to TVLine.com, Super Bowl XLV was the highest rated event in the sport's history. Based on ratings data the big game tackled 111 million viewers, besting last year's game by 4.5 million sports fans.

The numbers are certainly deserved since XLV was one of the more exciting championship games I've seen in a very long time--in any sport. The outcome wasn't what I expected but it was entertaining from top to bottom.

Actually, there was a terrible bit in the middle where my television started flickering and the sound started to break apart. No matter how hard I hit my television it just wouldn't right itself and, in some spots, started to get so bad I thought my TV was going to break. But then the Black Eyed Peas got off the stage and everything was cool again.

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The Ruins of Detroit
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/
Recommended for fans of Chernobyl photo galleries.

Feb 08, 2011 12:57pm PST

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The Ruins of Detroit http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672 : drazz
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  and fans of that retarded chrysler 200 ad with eminem : Dravenport
  - should be worth pointing out the entire city isn't like the link, or the ad. : halophoenix
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  weird that they left all those records behind in the police station. You'd think there would be some pri... : GloriousCow
  - No problem -- those records are from before privacy was invented. : drazz
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  What's happened to that city is simply amazing. : one random winner
  - Very sad. Some of those buildings are designed so well too. A real shame they ended up the way they did. : ateam311
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  I want to go to that library and rescue those books :( : Juno
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    I saw like 3 pianos in those pics I'd like to rescue. : sKetchflow
    - i like the biology models. those things are expensive! : pointyelbows
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  So many opportunities to reclaim or salvage, wow. : Drocnoc
  - Yeah, all that gothic revival makes me wish I had a jack-hammer and a very large truck. : steauengeglase
- Awesome. Does that church slogan say "And we shall say God did it"? : MagicWishMonkey
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  How did build conditions deteriorate to such a degree so quickly? Is it just that much vandalism? Like ... : mwasher
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    for instance.. what is the story with why half of that circle mesh thing is missing in the ceiling?? h... : mwasher
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      a little ceiling leak would get fixed. a roof would get repaired or tarred. singles would be replaced. W... : GloriousCow
      
      There's a good commentary about this in The World Without Us. In that, the author describes that all you ... : Arctic Fox
  - Clarence Boddicker is fucking shit up. : drazz
  - Vandalism paired with decades of neglect. : Link.
  - I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of maintenance that keeps buildings standing. : Herman Toothrot
- reminds of the latest castlevania game for some reason. : dopeman
- But I've already seen the entire city before : Metatron85
- Jesus. : Happy Doodle Muffin
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  At what point did everyone just decide to abandon like +- 5 city blocks? I dont even know the scale of t... : podung
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    During the 70s and 80s after Detroit's race riots and hundreds of thousands of people leaving the city. : Link.
    - Well and the industry there went to shit by leaving the area. : VegasX
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    Reagan kicked them out : MagicWishMonkey
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      More like a liberal economic and social policy created a nuclear fallout zone.. eradicating incentive for... : podung
      
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      When you pair "liberal" and "economic" like that it probably doesn't mean what you intend it to. ps n... : underground banana plantation
      
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      Hey I wasn't the one who took the political turn here. Liberal Economic is an oxymoron, you're right... : podung
      
      It was a joke you goofball! : MagicWishMonkey
      
      Yeah, that has nothing to do with it, considering Michigan was run by Republicans for much of the 20th ce... : Link.
      
      lol revisionist history : halophoenix
      
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      Chern00byl. Chern00byl. Is this new? Please tell me this is new, cuz it's amazing. : drhazard
      
      Chern00byl â„¢ Â© : podung
      
      i'll give you a 1/10 but only because you got a couple of bites. : rodneystubbs
    - MWM Reagan is SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!!! : Dschinghis Khan
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    it's actually quite interesting - similar things have happened across much of the rust belt; I was in an ... : halophoenix
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      Yeah, other cities/areas have the same problems. It seems everyone wants to pile on Detroit (some of it d... : OgrePalowakski
      
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      It's the most visible.
      
      Feb 09, 2011 2:04am PST
      
      It's the most visible. : rodneystubbs
  - It's been a slow progression over more than 60 years and it's also important to note that Detroit is HUGE... : get_navi
- http://www.tnr.com/article/metro-policy/81954/Detroit-economic-disaster-porn : DonkeyPopsicle
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  detroit would be an awesome filming location. you can blow up everything and no one will care. : Downforce
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    r]Challenge Accepted]r Robocop IV : loke662
    - GAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh : loke662
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    It would be a great place to take that existing architecture and make a giant backlot to shoot stuff on. : Halen
    - This has already been happening for a few years now : rodneystubbs
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    like Robocop 4 : jimmy_legs
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      Wait, there was a part 4? : CrustaR
      
      Not yet, but I am seeing a screenplay before my eyes in that photo set! : jimmy_legs
- Those many of those pictures would look a lot better with a RoboCop statue. : JarEme
- wow :( : AMikaboshi
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  Holy shit I want to go there : gokart.
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    me too. i am curious about the smells. : pointyelbows
    - People say the same thing about NY : Godhatesfatpeople
- I would love to shoot pictures in Detroit. : ConfusedUs
- I used to throw parties at the Packard Plant :) : graincloud
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  ohh, so the aliens didn't make City 17, they just sent everyone to Detroit. that makes sense. : mikecyb
  - this is exactly what I thought. two or three of those photos look straight out of HL2 : Draugluin
- I love industrial ruins. Such amazing pictures. There's something otherworldly about seeing such modern d... : Danny5225
- Are the bums and the poor so listless and dejected there to not steal the Dentist chair, some of those aw... : anhero
- that looks like Fallout 4 : gyokuro
- I would love to roam through those. : -hyroth-

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