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After revealing on “Hard Knocks” that he once owned a ferret, Bears receiver-turned-running back Velus Jones spent six minutes Wednesday detailing the life of “Crash.”
He and Colts receiver Michael Pittman, then USC teammates, were killing time in Moscow, Idaho, when they played with a ferret at a Petsmart. That inspired them to buy “Crash” from a breeder in South Central Los Angeles. They paid $350 for a de-scented, neutered ferret and named him “Crash” after the “Crash Bandicoot” video game character.
Jones brought him to his tutoring sessions at USC — “I put him in my little pouch and I didn’t have to do no schoolwork because everybody would be so fascinated,” he said — and eventually to Tennessee when he transferred.