GR: One Of America’s Manliest Cities

Hmmm.  GR has been on a lot of "best of" lists lately, but I didn't see this one coming.

According to the "Combo's America's Manliest City" study, Grand Rapids is #30 on a list of America's Manliest Cities.  Ahead of Detroit and just behind Philadelphia.  The #1 city on this list?  Oklahoma City.

Interesting.  Here are the criteria I found for what makes a city appear on this list

"...the COMBOS® "America's Manliest Cities" study takes 50 major metropolitan areas and ranks them from manliest to least manly. The study compiles manly city data such as the number of home improvement stores, steak houses and manly occupations per capita. But even if a city has a fair share of manly traits, unmanly or "girly" factors, like a high concentration of nail salons and fancy shopping boutiques can bump cities to the bottom of the list."

Surely they'd consider a city's love of beer, right?  Having just been named "Beer City USA" certainly couldn't hurt.

Either way, it's nice to see GR on yet ANOTHER list ... and one that's not negative or bashing our fine city.

Now, I'm gonna go lasso me some cattle, cook up a steak, crack open a beer and watch football.  Or drag racing.  Yeah, drag racing.  (I'm not a football fan.)