‘This is some mind-control stuff': A
Detroit Lions player is done with Pokemon Go
By Matt Bonesteel
August 2, 2016
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was on ESPN’s “Mike &
Mike” on Tuesday morning, and he had some sad news on an addiction that is
crippling his team:
Despite their quarterback’s misgivings, the Lions seem to have
embraced the game. The team posted a video of tight end Eric Ebron hunting
Pokemons (-men? I have questions) in downtown Detroit on its official website,
so if that isn’t an official endorsement I don’t know what is.
But one player confronted his demons head on. Guard Larry Warford
started playing the game like everyone else while living in Arizona this summer
but quickly stopped once he saw that it was turning people into even bigger
zombies than they already are with their smartphones. He talked Monday with
Carlos Monarrez of the Detroit Free Press:
“I’ll tell you why I stopped playing it,” he said Monday. “I was
walking down Mill Avenue in Tempe, Ariz., pretty much on (Arizona State’s)
campus. … I was walking down and literally everyone that was on their cell
phone walking down that same street was playing Pokemon Go. I was looking at
their screens and it was about 30, 40 people walking down Mill (Avenue).
“It was a bunch of people playing it and I was like, ‘I don’t like
this.’ I deleted it because I was like, ‘This is some mind-control stuff.’ I
don’t like it.”
Warford was on his way to meet friends at a restaurant when he ran
into an unnamed Lions teammate on Mill Avenue. He was playing it, too.
“I was like, ‘This is bad, this is bad,’ ” Warford said. “They were
playing it and I was like, ‘Nope!’ And I deleted it right there, right when I
got to the restaurant. The funny thing is, the people I was eating with, they
were playing it, too.”
Lions Coach Jim Caldwell, for one, is not having any of it and won’t
be playing, which isn’t exactly surprising considering his extreme sideline
stoicism.
“No,” Caldwell said Monday. “I’m certainly not going to get into it
in the future, either. I’ve seen all the reports. I have no idea exactly how it
works. I haven’t had time to think about that aspect. I’ll leave it up to you.”
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who:Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford
when:August 2, 2016
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