City Council to a person, event, or organization deemed to have performed an outstanding achievement or service to the citizens of Detroit. The sculpture is the main image on Detroit Community Scrip. The Spirit of Detroit represents local sports teams, such as when it is dressed in sports jerseys to celebrate local professional teams competing in the playoffs. As the number of sports and non-sports requests for the sculpture to wear jerseys increased, there began to be concerns about damage to the sculpture and starting in 2017, the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority began new rules for having a jersey displayed on the statue, including winning a championship and paying $25,000. The payment was intended to cover the restoration costs after a jersey is removed, including cleaning, reapplying the patina, and reapplying the wax. Another example of local sports team representation is the use of an image of the sculpture as part of the crest of the Detroit City Football Club. The sculpture has also been involved with arts events, such as being dressed in a tuxedo in 1999 during a visit by the Three Tenors. The ceremonial naming of the section of the John C. Lodge Freeway running from Livernois to I-94 in honor of Aretha Franklin was held in front of the sculpture in 2019. Spirit Plaza was the site of a floral tribute, which included 3,000 roses, that commemorated Big Sean's Detroit 2 album release on September 4, 2020. The Spirit of Detroit represents Detroit in media and video games, such as the 2011 Chrysler 200 Super Bowl commercial, "Born of Fire", which featured Eminem along with Detroit landmarks, and the 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human. In 2020, The Spirit of Detroit wore a blue-green shirt and a white ribbon to commemorate medical and "essential" workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two people installed the 420 square foot polyester poplin shirt and three foot ribbon. Gallery See also Detroit Bronze sculpture Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Portlandia References External links The City of Detroit: History of the "Spirit of Detroit" Statue Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum: The Spirit of Detroit 1958 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Michigan Civic personifications Monuments and memorials in Detroit Statues in Michigan 1958 establishments in Michigan Sculptures of men in Michigan Sculptures by Marshall Fredericks Colossal statues in the United States