So, about that pet of Dez Bryant's. Cowboys Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman said on KTCK-AM 1310 (via the Dallas Morning News) that it conjured up a bad monkey memory.
Turns out this isn't the first time a player has brought a pet monkey to work.
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Aikman recalled the first time: "It was insanity."
Here's Aikman's stroll down pet-monkey-memory lane on "The Musers" show Thursday:
"As soon as I saw that Dez had one, I thought 'you have got to be kidding.' It was probably the low point of my career when this particular player — Oronde Gadsden — he had a pet monkey and, at that time, the locker room was just in complete disarray. We had people coming and going, we had people who were getting suits made inside the locker room. We had tailors coming, you name it, it was happening.
"And then Oronde shows up with this pet monkey. What's the monkey gonna be doing while we're trying to practice, we're going to meetings? Who's watching the monkey for crying out loud? And I'm not sure anybody was. But he would bring this monkey and he put a diaper on it so we wouldn't have to worry about, you know.
"It was insanity. When I saw that Dez got a monkey, I thought — first of all, why would you want a monkey? And then second I thought, surely (Cowboys coach and former QB) Jason Garrett remembers the days of Oronde Gadsden and the monkey.
"You go back and say, 'are they close, are they not close after losing the last five games?' If the monkey's occupying space in the locker room, they're a long ways away."
