And that, in turn, led to a weekend of responses, including a wild thread involving Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, entertainment mogul Jay-Z, “Queen of Rap” Nicki Minaj, and former Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. As strange as it sounds, those characters were all joined together by the contract standoff between Parsons and the Cowboys.

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys are once again the leading topic of conversation around the NFL during training camp, this time for their latest contract holdout saga with Micah Parsons.  It has become a seemingly an annual tradition in Dallas that Jones gets in a contract standoff with a star.

The Cowboys and their Micah Parsons/Jerry Jones saga took a new turn. This time involving Dez Bryant and a Jay-Z reference.