<P> Gus has also appeared dressed in both Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms with other similarly uniformed men in a licensed co-branding with those two National Football League teams, as certain instant games are branded for those teams . </P> <P> On February 22, 2012, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced that the campaign with Gus will be discontinued, so they can focus on a new campaign explaining how the PA Lottery benefits older Pennsylvanians but he returned on November 1, 2015 onwards . </P> <P> However, Gus' heralded "return" was in an updated, and newly popular computer digital image (CGI) The decision to convert the popular character to pure CGI was initially somewhat controversial, prompting petitions and social media pages to be created to "save" Gus from transforming from a real life creation to one that has no real interplay with the other on - camera actors . However, those worries proved to be unfounded as the new CGI Gus is more colorful and his "interactions" with the other actors very realistic . </P>

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