Owl On The Field!

Apparently a recent soccer game between Finland and Belgium was held up for six minutes by an owl who decided to hang out on the field for awhile. There has got to be someone out there who remembers the time this happened at a Braves game. In fact, the owl in this video clip actually looks exactly like the owl I remember landing in right field and delaying our game for about twenty minutes. I would say “maybe it’s the same owl, traveling the world and disrupting sports wherever he can,” but the owl who landed in Turner Field (I think it was Turner. May have been Fulton — I can’t remember what year it happened, but I was pretty young) wasn’t as jaunty and relaxed as this European owl.

The owl who interrupted the Braves game landed out there and just froze. I guess he was scared, because he would not fly away. The grounds crew milled around him for quite awhile, scratching their heads, and finally got him in a grass bag and carried him away. I remember feeling bad for the poor guy. I wonder why he swooped down onto the field in the first place — did he think the Lemmer was a mouse or something?

Only an owl landing on the field could have made that Cubs series any crazier . . .