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What Flag Is That 07.19.2025

When we lived inMetro Detroit we discovered the most exciting sports team in the ‘Motor City’. The Detroit City Football Club (DCFC). DCFC is part of the Independent Soccer League and is old fashioned, European style ‘football’ (Soccer to us Americans.)

The stadium, Kenworth field in Hamtramck, is a traditional wooden stands, real grass, raucous fans place to see real football. DCFC has become the team to beat and is the established champions of Independent Soccer.

The flag is a maroon background with the French Fluer repeated (the Nickname of the team is La Rouge). The Main figure on the flag is ‘Spirit of Detroit’ sculpture.
“The Spirit of Detroit is a monument with a large bronze statue created by Marshall Fredericks and located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Cast in Oslo, Norway, the 26-foot (7.9 m), 9-ton sculpture sits on a 60-ton marble base and it was the largest cast bronze statuesince the Renaissance.
In its left hand, the large seated figure holds a gilt bronze sphere emanating rays to symbolize God. The people in the figure’s right hand are a family group symbolizing all human relationships.
Fredericks did not originally name the sculpture and the name came from the citizens of Detroit based on an inscription from 2 Corinthians (3:17) on the marble wall behind it:
“NOW THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT
AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE
LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.”
II CORINTHIANS 3:17
The 36 x 45 foot semicircular wall includes the seals of the City of Detroit and Wayne County. A plaque in front of the sculpture bears the following inscription: “The artist expresses the concept that God, through the spirit of man, is manifested in the family, the noblest human relationship.”
If you sit on the one side, expect to get smoke in your eyes.
With a drum line and one side of the stadium that screams and chants for 90 full minutes, when we score, the smoke cannons spew different color smoke.
What a great way to experience ‘real’ football. As one side of the stadium chants: DC and the other side answers: FC!

Gary & Denise Flanders

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