A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.
“Bananas” is how the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office described the apprehension of the primate in a Facebook post.
The spider monkey was spotted Friday afternoon at the intersection of two highways near the town of Otto, just to the south of the St. Louis area. The monkey had been staying at a nearby home when it managed to open a door and get outside.
The sheriff's office said the small monkey was returned to its caretaker after “careful negotiations and some coaxing." Photos posted on the sheriff's department Facebook page show a deputy kneeling on the ground before the tutu-clad monkey approached and grabbed his hands.
The sheriff's office said its a great example of how officers “having to be prepared to handle whatever the job throws at them.”
The timing was fortuitous. A winter storm packing snow and ice hit the region on Saturday, closing roads and sending temperatures plunging.
CORRECTS LOCATION TO NEAR OTTO NOT CALEDONIA This Jan. 3, 2025 image provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shows officers and an escaped spider monkey near Otto, Mo. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
CORRECTS LOCATION TO NEAR OTTO NOT CALEDONIA This Jan. 3, 2025 image provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shows an escaped spider monkey near Otto, Mo. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
CORRECTS LOCATION TO NEAR OTTO NOT CALEDONIA This Jan. 3, 2025 image provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shows an officer and an escaped spider monkey near Otto, Mo. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Paul Brown just moved up a few spots on the NFL career coaching wins list.
The NFL owners approved a proposal by Competition Committee on Tuesday to incorporate player, coach and team statistics from the All-America Football Conference into the official NFL records.
The AAFC existed from 1946-49 with Paul Brown's Cleveland team winning the title in each of those years. The Browns, San Francisco 49ers and original Baltimore Colts then joined the NFL in 1950. The Colts disbanded after one year before returning as a new franchise in 1953.
The AAFC had published a statistical supplement after its final season in 1949 that included single-game records, but scoresheets from all the individual games weren't available at the time. But those scoresheets have now been recovered and after consultation with the Elias Sports Bureau and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the stats are now part of the official record.
The NFL incorporated stats from the AFL into its official record after the leagues merged in 1970.
That gives Brown 52 additional regular-season and playoff wins to his previous total of 170, moving him from 22nd place all time to seventh with 222.
The incorporation of the AAFC stats includes the 1948 season when the Browns went 14-0 in the regular season and then won the championship game for a perfect 15-0 season.
Only one NFL team has gone through a regular season and playoffs undefeated, with the 1972 Miami Dolphins going 17-0. Some of the members of that team celebrate the accomplishment each year with Champagne after every team in the NFL has at least one loss.
They can still do that as the NFL's only undefeated team in the playoff era that began in 1933 with the NFL planning to list the AAFC champions separately in the record book.
The quality of the AAFC as a league was shown when the Browns won the NFL title in 1950 in their first year in the new league. There are two coaches and 15 players from the AAFC in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including notable names like Otto Graham, Lou Groza, Elroy Hirsch, Tom Landry, Marion Motley, Joe Perry and YA Tittle.
Tittle now moves from 65th in career yards passing to 44th — between Steve Young and Troy Aikman — and Motley's 5.7 yards per carry are the best ever for any running back with at least 750 carries and fourth best for any player. Groza moves from 41st all-time in scoring to 24th with 1,608 points.
For team records, the 1948 49ers now have the single-season rushing record with 3,663 yards, eclipsing the previous mark of 3,296 by the Ravens in 2019. San Francisco's 6.07 yards per carry that season are also the new record, ahead of Baltimore's 5.76 this past season.
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FILE - Cleveland Browns coach Paul Brown diagrams one of his pass plays on the blackboard, Sept. 26, 1947, in Cleveland. (AP Photo, File)
