In Preparing For Cardinals, Cowboys Coach Had To Deal With An Owl First

Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer is spending nan week preparing for nan Cardinals, but he had to woody pinch a different bird—literally—first: an owl.

One of nan nocturnal birds of prey paid a sojourn to nan Schottenheimer location connected Thursday night, arsenic nan coach confirmed to reporters during his media readiness connected Friday.

"So I'm successful crippled scheme meetings past nighttime doing immoderate reddish area worldly and I time off nan gathering astir 10 o'clock and I spell backmost to my telephone and I virtually had 72 matter messages connected my phone," Schottenheimer said. "72. And I'm a celebrated feline truthful that's thing abnormal.

"But it virtually started pinch a matter from my boy to his mother saying, 'Um, there's a large hawk-sized vertebrate successful here.' And I began to look down and location was an owl ..."

"My boy was doing immoderate activity and near nan sliders [sliding doors] unfastened and each of a sudden, an owl came to visit," Schottenheimer continued. "And we're not very outdoorsy group and truthful he wasn't really rather judge what to do. So he called my soon-to-be-nephew, who's marrying my niece.

"And nan 2 of them together, Frick and Frack, tried to fig it out. They couldn't do it. All they did was piss it off."

With Schottenheimer's soon-to-be nephew and boy incapable to fig retired really to region nan owl, an audible had to beryllium called.

How did nan Schottenheimers get free of nan owl?

The Schottenheimers called animal power and a "gentleman pinch a excavation net" came and removed nan owl.

"And truthful successful emblematic coaching fashion, I called my woman and said, 'Honey I'm going to enactment astatine nan condo tonight. You sewage this.' But they did. They sewage nan owl removed. The owl has been returned to its safe domain. But you can't make this worldly up, man."

Earlier this season, Schottenheimer's family dogs were bitten by snakes earlier Dallas‘s Week 2 triumph complete nan Giants, starring to nan family having to ft a sizable veterinary bill. Schottenheimer‘s location has been consecutive retired of nan movie Dr. Doolittle to nan constituent wherever he joked he‘s leaning into nan communicative for superstition purposes.

"... I deliberation we won erstwhile we had nan snake issue," Schottenheimer said. "So that's astir apt a bully omen, you know? I'll put an elephant successful my freakin‘ car shed if I person to. If that's what it takes to win, I’ll do it."

With nan owl rumor safely dealt with, Schottenheimer tin now afloat attraction connected helping Dallas get backmost successful nan triumph file against Arizona connected Monday night.

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