ARLINGTON, Texas – The celebration was conceived in the Dallas Cowboys’ tight end room at the start of the week. They knew there would be the giant Salvation Army kettles in the end zone on Thanksgiving, and rookie Jake Ferguson got to thinking.
“We were just brainstorming, ‘What can we do?’” Ferguson said. “We can up-and-down and what if all three of us are in there and we just play Whac-A-Mole?”
So when fellow rookie tight end Peyton Hendershot scored on a 2-yard run in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 28-20 win against the New York Giants, Ferguson, Dalton Schultz and Sean McKeon all jumped on the kettle.