WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : THEIR ENTHUSIASM MIGHT BE FLAGGING

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

June 22, 1994 12 AM PT

Switzerland might not boast the best team in the tournament, but expect no serious challengers for biggest flag.

In support of their team, making its first World Cup appearance in 28 years, the Swiss carted to Detroit a national flag estimated to be larger than the tarp that covers the infield at Tiger Stadium.

It has been draped between two cranes on Opdyke Road east of the Pontiac Silverdome.

Two more shabby World Cup performances and the Swiss can use the flag to sail home.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : THEIR ENTHUSIASM MIGHT BE FLAGGING

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