So if you’ve been following the progress of the Red Wings’ newest state of the art stadium, Little Caesars Arena, lately, you have probably heard that a lot of “fans” are quite disgruntled over the design Olympia Development went with for the roof.

What they went with was the logo of the company for which the stadium was named and the company that made all the money to buy the team in the first place. WHAT NERVE.

People lost their shit when this stadium was named Litter Caesars Arena in the first place and now they are wetting their pants in disappointment because they didn’t get the *baby voice* big, rwed, shiny, wings wogo they wanted *end baby voice* on the ROOF of the fucking building. A roof. We’re talking about a roof here. People lost their SHIT over this ROOF.

Now, in a short minute here I’m going to take you through a series of tweets that did nothing short of amaze me, and not in a good way. The Internet is a wild place, and it’s mind blowingly insane to me how fucking moronic people are and how they can have such ignorant thoughts about how they feel a fucking roof should look like.

Like hey, I get it. In the original rendering we all thought the stadium was going to look like this:

But guess what? That was before there was even a fucking hole in the ground. Things have changed since this monstrosity’s ground breaking way back in whenever it was. Most notably, the Pistons are going to be playing there! Hey! That’d be kinda fucking weird if the ‘Stones were on national TV (lol) and ESPN did an aerial shot of the stadium and a giant Winged Wheel was staring all of America in the face. Detroit gets made fun of enough, we don’t need logo confusion on our new badass stadium to add to it.

And for those crying that it’s not an LED roof that can morph into whatever shape shifting design you want it to be, you can shut up too. The project is already millions upon millions of dollars over budget so the people in charge were probably like “ay the roof is a major expense that literally will never be seen by the naked eye unless you’re in a helicopter, airplane and/or hover craft. Plus thousands of birds are just going to take a bajillion shits on it so why don’t we cut the futuristic light up space lid from the budget?”

Additionally, I am going to take a mad stab in the dark and say that all of the people below bitching about roof don’t actually live in the city, because if they actually did live down here they might have caught wind of what Ford Field is dealing with for having very mild LED lights that stay illuminated throughout the night. There is literally a petition on change.org requesting they be shut off for “light pollution.”

 

Do I agree with the petition against Ford Field? No. Do I think it’s completely laughably stupid? Yes. But is it an issue for Ford Field, it’s owners, and the city? Yes. I live literally a stones throw from Ford Field and think it’s awesome the lights stay on, but I guess a lot of people don’t, and my guess would be in a few years as Detroit grows and 2017 turns to 2029 and so on, the term “light pollution” will become more and more of a “thing,” and we’ll see those lights shut off. The Red Wings + LCA probably recognized that we live in a highly sensitive world now and the influx of hipsters in Detroit who already hate sports would just bitch up a storm behind their mustaches and craft beers until the Wings were forced to shut off their sexy multimillion dollar Avatar space dome.

Sorry team, this one has be fired up. Let’s go to the Internet and directly single out some of these ass-hats.

Nice, the Crying Jordan. I’m a big fan of the Crying Jordan but so help me god “taylor rehan” I want to slap the shit out of you for putting a him on this beautiful coliseum before it’s even finished being built. The Joe had nothing on its roof besides bird shit and probably dead homeless people, but no one cared. So why do we give a shit what’s on top of the new stadium?

Hey everyone stop what you’re doing the Wings have lost the support of Brent Latam. You’re embarrassed to be a Wings fan because the sponsors/owners logos is on the top of building? I mean sure feel embarrassed when Riley Sheahan has zero goals through 81 games, be embarrassed when we sign Jonathan Ericsson to a 6 year 25+ million dollar extension, but if this is what embarrasses you, I’m embarrassed to say Hockeytown has fans like you.

You look absolutely horrible and you are embarrassing Stephanie, but no one is tweeting about your lack of appeasing aesthetics because your opinion is irrelevant. That is why you have literally tweeted 33.2 THOUSAND times and only managed to garner 270 followers.

Hey Kyle, have you seen this?

Case closed.

https://twitter.com/Kyulightining/status/884937025597689857

Who has the best one Jacob McCauley? Could you please email the long list of awesomely sick roof designs throughout the NHL? Oh you said ever. Okay I just did a Google search for “awesome roofs” and all I kept finding was shit like this:

Is this what you want? I don’t think vegetation atop a downtown sports stadium is the greatest idea but you seem to be the roof expert in this situation, so please help me clarify.

Now amongst the thousands of hellish tweets like the ones I walked you through above, there are still plenty out there who have their head on straight.

https://twitter.com/Brewboy07/status/884800137821904899

Thank you for keeping Hockeytown real AF @BrewBoy07 and Some Guy. You give me hope for DRW fans and our future as a community.

To everyone else, I cry crocodile tears for you. Wake up. It’s 2017. It was never going to be Gordie Howe Stadium with Mo’ Cheese and a light up octopus lifting the Stanley Cup filled with hockey pucks on the roof. Business is business and it takes NOTHING away from whatever the Wings are able to produce on the ice, just as a light up Wing Wheeled rooftop wouldn’t have added anything to our on-ice product either. We went to six and raised four in a dump, so as long as the talent develops and the ice is still frozen, we should be able to replicate the same at LCA, no matter what kind of roof it has. #lgrw 🍾

– Frank