Von Miller Offers New Cowboys Teammate a Lifetime Supply of Chicken in Exchange for No. 40 Jersey

Von Miller offered his new Dallas Cowboys teammate Hunter Luepke a lifetime supply of chicken in exchange for his No. 40 jersey number, he joked on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

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Von Miller has made an unconventional offer to teammate Hunter Luepke

The newest Dallas Cowboys player wants Luepke’s No. 40, the number he has played with while on the Rams and Bills

Miller has offered Luepke a lifetime supply of chicken for the jersey number

Von Miller wants his new teammate to eat more chicken.

The newest member of the Dallas Cowboys is looking to score No. 40 as a new jersey number, and he’s settled on a way that might entice fullback Hunter Luepke — if he’s hungry enough.

“I’m not gonna get caught up in the number, but I did make some offers to him already that I feel like he can’t really come off of those,” Miller, 37, joked to reporters in his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 18. “I think a lifetime supply of chicken will do it.”

Before disclosing his offer of unlimited poultry, Miller signed a one-year, $5.5 million deal with his hometown team.

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Miller, from the Dallas suburb of DeSoto, has long dreamed of playing for the Cowboys, he told reporters gathered at training camp in Oxnard, Calif.

“It’s really cool,” Miller said. “It’s like that movie Inception, like a dream within a dream,” he said. “I always wanted to play in the National Football League and to play for the Dallas Cowboys. We’re going deep with it. Dream within a dream. It’s super cool. Being here, I know a lot of guys already, know a lot of coaches, too. Being here, being in this atmosphere is surreal, for sure.”

After he participated in his first practice for the ‘Boys, the linebacker elaborated on his unconventional offer to Luepke.

For Miller, it makes seemingly perfect sense. He was a poultry science major at Texas A&M University and is the co-founder of Greener Pastures Chicken, a 35-acre organic poultry farm in Central Texas.

But the NFL veteran — who was the MVP of Super Bowl 50 — knows the season’s success lies beyond whether he gets to wear No. 40, as he did for the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills.

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“A number would be fine, but I think the most important thing is to win a lot of these games, play in big games, and the number would just be an afterthought,” he said.

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