FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer could be a bit of superstitious.
Earlier than the Week 2 assembly in opposition to the New York Giants, the household canine have been bit by snakes, and the Cowboys received. On Thursday, an owl made its approach contained in the Schottenheimer dwelling. If the Cowboys beat the Arizona Cardinals on ESPN’s Monday Night time Soccer, Schottenheimer has a plan.
“S—, I will put an elephant in my frickin’ storage,” Schottenheimer mentioned. “I will try this subsequent. If that is what it takes to win, I will do it.”
So how did the owl get inside the home anyway? His son, Sutton, was performing some work and left the sliding doorways open.
This is how the coach described the situation:
“I do not know if the owl was on the lookout for the snakes or what was occurring, but it surely’s the story of a coach’s spouse. So I am in sport plan conferences final evening performing some pink zone stuff and I depart the assembly about 10 o’clock and I am going again to my cellphone, and I actually had 72 textual content messages on my cellphone. Seventy-two. I am a well-liked man in order that’s nothing irregular,” he mentioned laughing, “however and it actually began with a textual content from my son to his mom saying, umm, ‘There’ an enormous hawk-sized fowl in right here,’ and I started to look down and there was an owl … And we’re not very outdoorsy individuals and so he wasn’t actually fairly certain what to take action he known as, uh, my quickly to be nephew, who’s marrying my niece, and the 2 of them collectively, Frick and Frack, tried to determine it out. They could not do it. All they did was piss it off. And so being in typical teaching style, I known as my spouse and I mentioned, ‘Honey, I will keep on the rental tonight, you bought this.’ however they bought the owl eliminated. The owl has been returned to its protected area. However you possibly can’t make these items up, man. So, it is actual.”
How did they take away the owl?
“They known as animal management,” Schottenheimer mentioned. “A gentleman got here with a internet, like a pool internet. I might need to take a look at that as one other job. Simply kinda develop into an animal management man. I am so skilled now with wildlife in and round Dallas. Cannot make it up.”