Say Ya to Da Lions, Eh

Cross a yooper with a Lions fan and you've got yourself a strange combination.

Doug Farrar of Yahoo Sports reports:

As Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz broke his team's 2010 training camp on Wednesday, he had a special guest in-house -- Joe Paquette Jr., a 63-year-old man from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, who walked over 400 miles to attend a team practice. The long hike -- 425 miles in 18 days -- had something strong behind it.

Pop Versus Soda

Click on the map to enlarge it.

Michigan is extremely pop-centric, according to this map detailing the preference for the term pop versus soda. In fact, it appears to be the most pro-pop state in the union.

Notice how the battle lines are drawn between the western UP and northeastern Wisconsin. Things must be very tense along the state line up there.

And Alaska appears to be having a real soft-drink identity crisis.

Thanks to Strangemaps for this gem.