Booty Lounge Marks Triumphant Return To Lions Tailgating

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Two years after being flagged for licensing and other violations, the "Booty Lounge" was back in the game for Lions tailgaters.

The controversial party bus was spotted at Detroit's Eastern Market ahead of Sunday's football game against Tampa Bay.

The "lounge" features scantily-clad performers inside a repurposed bus -- along with dancing poles and tinted windows. Owner Joe Parsons of Woodhaven told MLive they're there to support the team as a "mobile entertainment complex"-- not as a strip club on wheels.

It's unclear whether the bus has been licensed and vetted by the city for a return.

There was much controversy about the bus when it appeared on the Lions' tailgating scene in 2011, with then-Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta calling on it quickly to end.

Kenyatta in 2011 watched undercover video shot by WDIV, showing strippers giving lap dances on the Booty Lounge during tailgating at Eastern Market before Lions games.

"I was appalled," Kenyatta said, at the time. "Had never seen anything like that. I mean … of course, I know about strip clubs – stationary – but something mobile that's operating in a family-oriented situation…"

He asked the police chief to take action, saying, "When they're stationary, they are in fact a strip club, and they have to have a license to operate."