Overview
- Ferrell recounted on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast that he worked one day at Disneyland during college and decided not to return after orientation.
- He said he was embarrassed to quit himself so a friend called Disneyland and gave a joking reason for his departure.
- The fabricated excuse reported by Ferrell was that he had a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys, a line he said might now appear in a corporate file.
- Ferrell said he expected a more desirable role like Jungle Cruise operator but was assigned to a front-ticket kiosk and had a rival offer at a friend’s Newport Beach surf shop for the same pay.
- Outlets treated the anecdote as lighthearted promotional material tied to Ferrell’s press run for the Netflix golf comedy The Hawk rather than as an investigative claim.