Detroit resident Joey Kolodziecziec(KOE-LOE-JAY-SIC) is a diehard fan of the Detroit Lions. But even this diehard was disgusted by what he saw last football season from the hapless Lions who could not scrape together a win to save their lives. By the end of the season his dismay drove him to action. Kolodziecziec contacted his local state representative and suggested that the image of the lion and it's connection to pride and strength was so wasted on the team they should be banned from besmirching the good name of the king of the jungle. The movement caught on and soon Michigan legislators introduced a bill to ban the Detroit football team's use of the lion image. The bill is still pending in the Michigan House.
But Michigan is by no means the only state to consider such action. Residents of the city of Baltimore have encouraged that state's legislators to relieve the state bird from representing the perenially poor-performing Baltimore Orioles. And Tennessee residents have launched an initiative to force the Memphis Grizzlies to drop the mighty bear as their mascot after the Grizzlies failed to make the playoffs yet another year last season. Animals activists groups such as PETA have expressed support for all this pending legislation saying that animals should not be exploited in any way.
Naperville City Desk will continue to monitor these ongoing efforts.
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