SCSU's Robert Porcher named chair
of Detroit Metro Sports Commission
August 21, 2006
DETROIT – Former South Carolina State
standout Robert Porcher, who went on to an
illustrious career in the National Football
League, has been named chairman of the Detroit
Metro Sports Commission (DMCS). Porcher is
a former Detroit Lions’ defensive lineman,
a partner with the Southern Hospitality Restaurant
Group (SHRG), and was a member of the Super
Bowl XL Host Committee Board of Directors,
and co-founder, with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick,
of the Detroit Football Classic held annually
at Ford Field.
 “We are very pleased that Robert Porcher
will lend his considerable entrepreneurial
and leadership skills to the Detroit Metro
Sports Commission,” said Dave Beachnau,
DMSC executive director. “Robert is
passionate about sports at all levels, and
is also extremely committed to his local civic
initiatives and successful business ventures.”
As chair of the DMSC, a subsidiary of the
Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau,
Porcher will also join the DMCVB Board of Directors.
“Robert Porcher is a great example of
a local professional athlete who has successfully
transferred his drive and commitment from the
playing field to the local community,” said
Larry Alexander, DMCVB president. “Through
his involvement with his restaurant group and
other civic activities, Robert is directly
linked to the local hospitality community that
the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau
serves.”
While at SC State, Porcher earned All-MEAC
and All-America honors, and was named both
MEAC Defensive Player of the Year and I-AA
Defensive Player of the year by the NFL Draft
Report in 1991. The only first-round NFL draft
choice in SCSU history, Porcher was inducted
into the Bulldog Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998
and had his number (#94) retired in 2001.
The Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors
Bureau (DMCVB) is a non-profit organization
promoting metro Detroit as a convention and
visitor destination. Travel and tourism ranks
as the city's second largest industry. The
DMCVB is the only organization that promotes
Detroit regionally, nationally and internationally
as a desirable location for conventions, tradeshows,
corporate meetings and tourism.
The Detroit Metro Sports Commission is a subsidiary
of the DMCVB that was formed in 2001 to bring
regional, national and international amateur
sporting events to metro Detroit.
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