Once a motor city icon, the Silverdome has now become an icon for all the wrong reasons, a powerful symbol of the area’s fall from grace.

Written by DCist contributor Elisabeth Meinecke The Redskins face their second winless team of the season Sunday. Will this matchup have a different outcome? Eye Candy: That’s what the Detroit defense should look like right now to Zorn and Co. Actually, the nicest thing you can do for the Lions this season is not look at their stats on either side of the ball. They rank 31st in total rushing yards this season and their…

Jason Campbell couldn’t miss, the defensive line looked like a wrecking crew, Carlos Rogers actually intercepted a pass (and returned it for a touchdown!), and Baby Jesus announced his preference for Joe Gibbs over Jon Kitna in a beating of the Detroit Lions so savage that Daniel Snyder had plenty of free time to stop worrying about the state of his football team, and start worrying about how the rides from his terrible theme parks…