Detroit sports teams are having a moment.

Seriously, look around. The Pistons rose from the ashes like a phoenix in just one season. The Lions – once a laughingstock – went 15-2 last season. FIFTEEN WINS, TWO LOSSES. The WNBA announced an expansion team coming to Detroit (though not till 2029). And then there’s the Tigers, who somehow have combined their magic pixie dust of last season with the 2002 “Moneyball” Oakland Athletics, winning all the margins in a seemingly mystical way.

As for the Red Wings? Well, at least those centennial jerseys are pretty cool.

Long story short, there are a lot of cool things going on in the Detroit sports vortex right now, and being that it’s my 29th birthday on Thursday, July 10 (pretty unremarkable, I’m aware), I thought I’d ride the positivity wave and list off 29 reasons why Detroit is having a sports moment.

Let’s get weird (in no particular order):