Jerome Bettis just got Key to City for Detroit. Who was the last person to get one?

[Motrv8d Steve]

I just heard this on the radio.
the last person to receive the Key to the City for Detroit was....










































Saddam Hussein...

[The Rookie]

wasn't it Matt Millen??

[91Z28]

I hope it was Ted Nugent. He is the fucking man.

[Motrv8d Steve]

who the hell really knows, I didn't look it up, but I did hear it on the 1090 San Diego sports talkshow. Coach John Kinterra

[The Rookie]

I hope it was Ted Nugent. He is the fucking man.

Yeah Nugent is a nutball!!! He cracks me up on his show "Wanted Ted or alive".

[Motrv8d Steve]

I'm a big Jerome Bettis fan Hell I think that's cool and hope Bus has a big game.

[Motrv8d Steve]

bye bye Saddam, hello Jerome!
Saddam Hussein Helped Detroit Church, Got Key to City
Thursday, March 27, 2003 foxnews

DETROIT — Saddam Hussein donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Detroit church and received a key to the city more than two decades ago, soon after he became president of Iraq.

The events contrast sharply with the attack Saddam's regime is now facing from a U.S.-led coalition, reflecting his changed relationship with the United States since Washington helped Saddam covertly in his 1980-88 war with Iran.

Saddam's bond with Detroit started in 1979, when the Rev. Jacob Yasso of Chaldean Sacred Heart congratulated Saddam on his presidency. In return, Yasso said, his church received $250,000.

"He was very kind person, very generous, very cooperative with the West. Lately, what's happened, I don't know," Yasso, 70, said Wednesday. "Money and power changed the person."

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

Yasso said that at the time, Saddam made donations to Chaldean churches around the world.

"He's very kind to Christians," Yasso said.

Chaldeans are a Eastern Rite Catholic group in predominantly Muslim Iraq. Among prominent Chaldeans is Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz.

A year later, Yasso traveled with about two dozen people to Baghdad as a guest of the Iraqi government, and they were invited to Saddam's palace. "We were received on the red carpet," Yasso said.

Yasso said he presented Saddam with the key to the city, courtesy of then-Mayor Coleman Young. Then, Yasso said, he got a surprise. "He said, 'I heard there was a debt on your church. How much is it?'" Yasso said. Saddam donated another $200,000.

In the 1980s, Iraq and the United States were allied in their mistrust of Iran, which held hundreds of Americans hostage under the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Yasso called Saddam an American puppet. "The job the United States trusted to him is done; now he's no good," he said.

There are tens of thousands of Chaldeans among the roughly 300,000 Americans of Middle Eastern descent in the Detroit area. About 1,200 families attend Sacred Heart, said Yasso, who came to the United States in 1964.

Some church members disagreed that Saddam was once kind.

"When he became president, I leave everything and run away," said Nadhim Franco, 66. "I came here. I was dishwasher. I came here, I was happy."

[Bigrus]

I would give it back after i burned the city

[toneloc60]

Jerome Bettis just got Key to City for Detroit

Hmmmm... Sounds about as grand as getting the key to one of those shitty gas station bathrooms. Anyone who's been to Detroit knows what I'm saying. That place sucks.

[Nastyfoot]

Jerome Bettis just got Key to City for Detroit

Hmmmm... Sounds about as grand as getting the key to one of those shitty gas station bathrooms. Anyone who's been to Detroit knows what I'm saying. That place sucks.

Thread should be locked now, you said it perfectly

[Motrv8d Steve]

Jerome Bettis just got Key to City for Detroit

Hmmmm... Sounds about as grand as getting the key to one of those shitty gas station bathrooms. Anyone who's been to Detroit knows what I'm saying. That place sucks.

yeah a great place to hold the Superbowl in February...