One area where the city of Detroit , in spite of struggling with its public image, has had great success in recent years, is hosting major sporting events. These include the NFL Super Bowl, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a major golf tournament and numerous basketball and hockey championship series playoff games. Jerry Herron, identified as "an American studies professor" at Wayne State , refers to the challenge faced by the Motor City : " Detroit 's the city everybody likes to look at as a place that's dangerous, abandoned and economically no longer viable. It's the most famous failed city in the United States ." But he adds that today the city "feels like a place that has a promise; it has a future. I'd love to see the city market its car culture, our automotive heritage. We invented the modern industrial world. We're still the Motor City ."