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Lions coach Dan Campbell wants a pet lion for sideline, would give up arm for Super Bowl

Dan Exotic?

We're pretty sure he was joking, but Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said on the "Pardon My Take" podcast Monday that he asked Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp about getting a pet lion to keep at the team's Allen Park practice facility.

"I don’t think we’re going to be able to do it, but I would love to literally just have a pet lion," Campbell said. "Just a legit pet lion on a chain, a big ass chain, and he really is my pet. We just walk around the building, we go out to practice, we’re at seven-on-seven, we’re behind the kicker when he’s kicking.