Lions' Larry Warford deleted Pokemon GO because it's 'mind control'

Detroit Lions guard Larry Warford wants no part in the global phenomenon that is Pokemon GO.

Warford downloaded the app when it was released in early July, but deleted it the very next day after stumbling upon something very unsettling.

"I'll tell you why I stopped playing it," Warford told Carlos Monarrez of the Detroit Free Press. "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."

Shortly after, Warford ran into an unnamed Lions teammate who was also playing the game.

"I was like, 'This is bad, this is bad,'" he 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."