Leave it to the greatest Detroit Lions player ever to make the best of a confounding situation.

The Free Press reported on Friday morning that people were up in arms over Garth Brooks wearing a "Sanders 20" jersey during his concert at Ford Field last week.

It appears that people confused this as an endorsement for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

It was instead (and obviously so to those around here) an homage to Barry Sanders, the Hall of Fame running back who was voted by USA TODAY readers a few months ago as the greatest college football player ever.

A few hours after our story was published, Barry Sanders sent out a tweet to Brooks, asking if he'd be his vice president.

A few minutes later, Brooks responded on Twitter, so to all of the other presidential hopefuls — look out.

And the Detroit Lions' social media team got into the act, posting this "campaign poster" for Sanders.

Take note that instead of the elephant for the Republican party or the donkey for Democrats, Barry Sanders is apparently representing the "GOAT" party.

Hard to argue with that one.

Contact Kirkland Crawford: kcrawford@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @HiKirkHere.