PETA is offering a new addition to the Detroit Lions team—a stuffed lion named Dan Detroit.
Dan Campbell recently joked to popular sports comedy podcast Pardon My Take that he’d enjoy having a real live lion on the sidelines to pump up the guys. He apparently added: “I don’t know if PETA’s going to allow that.”
Now PETA is reaching out to Campbell with a request. According to a press release, they’re sending him a plush toy lion they’ve named Dan Detroit in hopes he’ll use it as a symbol.
“No lion belongs in a barren cage or on a chain,” says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange.