Judged solely the color of his or her skin, a lobster was saved from being savagely boiled alive and consumed with butter sauce at a Pueblo, Colorado Red Lobster location, a reprieve denied to the soon-to-be red lobsters it was crawling amongst in a delivery last week, the AP reports.
“Myself and many of my team are born and raised Denver Broncos fans, so as soon as we saw that orange color, we knew that Crush would be an excellent representation,” said Kendra Kastendieck, the Red Lobster locations’s general manager, who named the lobster Orange Crush after the 1976 to 1986 Broncos defense. “And we all want our defensive line to be that good again.”
Crush’s new home in the Denver Aquarium has a Broncos helmet for it to crawl in and around for however long it lives in captivity. The other, non-orange lobsters it was caught with are dead.