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You’ve heard about Pokemon Go at this point. It is an unstoppable cultural phenomenon. According to analytics firm SensorTower, by late July the app had been downloaded 75 million times. Even athletes are playing it, another harsh reminder that most pro athletes are in their early 20s and you are going to die someday.
However, one NFL player is decidedly anti-Pokemon Go, and that’s Detroit Lions offensive lineman Larry Warford. According to Warford, Pokemon Go is essentially mind-control.
Now, Warford is not dismissing the game out of hand. He’s played it. He’s fought a Bulbasaur. He’s been on the frontlines. However, he quickly found himself addicted to the game, and realized he had to stop, saying:
“I’ll tell you why I stopped playing it. 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 Pokémon 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 probably doesn’t mean “mind-control” like in the first Naked Gun movie. He’s probably just talking about people getting addicted to it, which seems reasonable, given how popular it has become so fast. However, all you Charmanders out there can relax. Larry Warford is more concerned about protecting Matthew Stafford.
(Via Complex)
