A little insight into what happens after The Athletic Detroit staff meetings: Usually, after an afternoon hard at work, we head to a local brewery in Ann Arbor for a happy hour, at which point we wolf down bibimbap and catch up with one another.



Thursday night, though, after our most recent meeting, we got preoccupied by something else. Between bites, our Lions writer, Chris Burke, posed this question: Who is the face of Detroit sports right now? At this particularly downtrodden juncture in the city’s athletic history, it’s a fascinating question. Do you go with the best player? The top player of the best team? The most discussed? The player who most embodies the city’s values?



It sparked a full-throated debate, a Twitter poll and now, since that didn’t bring any of us much resolution, a roundtable of our pro sports beat writers on the topic.



So let’s open up the floor.



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