Detroit Lions guard Larry Warford prefers his reality not to be augmented, thank you very much.
In an interview with Carlos Monarrez of the Detroit Free Press on Monday, Warford revealed that he stopped playing the worldwide smash hit Pokémon GO for fear that it was acting as a mind control agent.
“I’ll tell you why I stopped playing it,” Warford said. “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,'” he continued. “I deleted it because I was like, ‘This is some mind-control stuff.’ I don’t like it.”
Watch out, Niantic. Larry Warford sees through your elaborate ruse of world domination through the brainwashing of the masses. Though considering how addicted some other athletes have gotten to the location-based game, he may be onto something here. Stay woke, Pokémon GO players.
H/T theScore
