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Jimmy Johnson: Dez Bryant's $55,000 tab 'excessive'; Howie Long: Past players faced much worse
11:57 PM CDT on Thursday, September 30, 2010
SportsDayDFW.com
The analysts of FOX NFL Sunday, including ex-Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, discussed the $55,000 dinner Dez Bryant and other Cowboys had recently.
When asked What they thought of Bryant's big tab and the worst thing they had to go through, here is how they responded:
Terry Bradshaw: Well, the veterans knew I couldn't drink very well so they took me out into the woods and made me drink. They also hid my car from me. I ended up puking and couldn't find my car. Then I had to sing at lunch, but that worked out OK because it was one of my hit songs from my Christmas album.
Howie Long: We had a rookie party that I can't talk about and that no one under 18 should ever see.
Michael Strahan: I've seen all kinds of things. They told all of us rookies that we had to wear a jacket on our first road trip and I had to go to a certain store and get a free jacket. Well, I did and then found out nothing was really free. Then the night before the game they showed everybody my trip to the store because they had taped the whole thing. Today, vets like to tape rookies to goal posts and also tape them up and toss them in the ice-cold tubs after practice. I used to have buy donuts and bagels for everybody in the building, including coaches, secretaries, everybody.
Howie Long: One night on the road they put a dead fish in my bed and I didn't notice it until I got under the covers. The stink was awful.
Michael Strahan: I know some guys have put the cars of rookies, covered in toilet paper, on the practice fields while they are in meetings during camp.
Jimmy Johnson: I think what Bryant had to do for the Cowboys was a little excessive. I wouldn't have taken all those players. I would have said no way. Some of those players took $900 bottles of wine home. That's ridiculous. I wouldn't have paid for that.
Michael Strahan: When the guys started doing that, I would have slipped out of the restaurant.
Jimmy Johnson: I would never have given up my credit card. And I also never would have carried anybody's shoulder pads. These players have too much time on their hands to be thinking all this stuff up to do.
11:57 PM CDT on Thursday, September 30, 2010
SportsDayDFW.com
The analysts of FOX NFL Sunday, including ex-Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, discussed the $55,000 dinner Dez Bryant and other Cowboys had recently.
When asked What they thought of Bryant's big tab and the worst thing they had to go through, here is how they responded:
Terry Bradshaw: Well, the veterans knew I couldn't drink very well so they took me out into the woods and made me drink. They also hid my car from me. I ended up puking and couldn't find my car. Then I had to sing at lunch, but that worked out OK because it was one of my hit songs from my Christmas album.
Howie Long: We had a rookie party that I can't talk about and that no one under 18 should ever see.
Michael Strahan: I've seen all kinds of things. They told all of us rookies that we had to wear a jacket on our first road trip and I had to go to a certain store and get a free jacket. Well, I did and then found out nothing was really free. Then the night before the game they showed everybody my trip to the store because they had taped the whole thing. Today, vets like to tape rookies to goal posts and also tape them up and toss them in the ice-cold tubs after practice. I used to have buy donuts and bagels for everybody in the building, including coaches, secretaries, everybody.
Howie Long: One night on the road they put a dead fish in my bed and I didn't notice it until I got under the covers. The stink was awful.
Michael Strahan: I know some guys have put the cars of rookies, covered in toilet paper, on the practice fields while they are in meetings during camp.
Jimmy Johnson: I think what Bryant had to do for the Cowboys was a little excessive. I wouldn't have taken all those players. I would have said no way. Some of those players took $900 bottles of wine home. That's ridiculous. I wouldn't have paid for that.
Michael Strahan: When the guys started doing that, I would have slipped out of the restaurant.
Jimmy Johnson: I would never have given up my credit card. And I also never would have carried anybody's shoulder pads. These players have too much time on their hands to be thinking all this stuff up to do.
