It wasn’t exactly a hoot to be at the Schottenheimer house this week.

The Dallas Cowboys coach revealed he had a winged visitor in his house on Thursday as he was in a game plan meeting, the result of his son, Sutton, leaving a sliding door open.

“I don’t know if the owl was looking for the snakes or what was going on, but it’s the story of a coach’s wife,” he said Friday. “So I’m in game plan meetings last night doing some red zone stuff and I leave the meeting about 10 o’clock and I go back to my phone, and I literally had 72 text messages on my phone. Seventy-two. I’m a popular guy, so that’s nothing abnormal but it literally started with a text from my son to his mother saying, ‘umm, there’s a big hawk-sized bird in here,’ and I began to look down and there was an owl.”

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