Texas A&M fan trolls Texas monkey incident on Paul Finebaum show

If you haven’t heard the Texas monkey story by now, you’re missing out. It’s become the subject of many jokes from other college football teams — and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

In case you missed it, here’s a quick recap. On Halloween, trick-or-treaters visited Texas special teams coordinator and assistant head coach Jeff Banks’ house when his girlfriend’s pet monkey allegedly bit one of the children.

The jokes wrote themselves. Friday, a Texas A&M fan had a good one during the Paul Finebaum Show. The fan held up a sign that read “Jimbo has ranches, Texas has a monkey.”

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The sign refers to Jimbo Fisher’s response when asked about potential coaching rumors. He told reporters, “I have ranches here,” as a reason why he wouldn’t leave Texas A&M. Hence, “Jimbo has ranches, Texas has a monkey.”

These jokes likely aren’t going anywhere, especially with a full slate of games coming up on Saturday. Texas is playing at Iowa State at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1.

Texas assistant Jeff Banks’ girlfriend responds to viral monkey bite story

Banks’ girlfriend, Gina Thomas, responded to the report Monday night, taking to Twitter to answer a serious of questions and showed where the monkey, Gia, lives. An emotional support animal according to Thomas, Gia lives in a caged environment away from where children were allowed to trick-or-treat.

“This is sad that people have to go all out of the way to prove that a person is lying,” Thomas said in a video that has since been deleted, along with her entire Twitter account. “Here is the gate, here is where all the haunted house action happened. And yes, I do clean up fast — the shit’s gone. Here is the gate every child and parent was told to turn around at when they got to. It was closed and blocked off with balloons.

“This is how far the kid went in my backyard without permission, all the way over to where my animals live and watch this. I don’t even play when it gets to my animals, and I know all the legal rules on them. … How could she viciously bite someone if they stick their hand in there, where it don’t belong.”

Banks was previously the special teams coordinator at Alabama, where he worked with Steve Sarkisian, who is now the head coach at Texas. So far this season, the Longhorns are 4-4 and have dropped three consecutive games. Before joining the staff at Alabama in 2018 , Banks was the special teams coordinator at Texas A&M.