AP

With 31 other teams, the sight of the owner on the sidelines talking to the coach during the fourth quarter would be big news.

But you have almost come to expect such sights with the Cowboys.

During the fourth quarter of last night’s loss to Washington, owner Jerry Jones went downstairs to check on the status of injured quarterback Tony Romo, and then to update coach Jason Garrett on the prognosis.

“I was here during the tail end of the examination and knew he planned to come back out and play if he were needed,” Jones said, via Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. “Of course he was needed. I felt good that he could come back out. When he saw the opportunity he did. I told Jason that he would be back in.”

Of course. Because that’s totally normal.

Dr. Jones also added that initial concerns about Romo’s surgically repaired back were allayed when he saw the X-rays.

“We knew there were no structural issues when they gave him the X-rays,” Jones said. “I very concerned [by] the fact that he laid there as long as he laid there. After we looked at the play and saw that was a knee kind of to the side of the back, then we felt better about it.

“We got him in here and looked at it real carefully everybody felt better about it. But he was certainly limited when he first got in here, but he loosened it up real good and went back out.”

And who other than Jones to spread the good news, since Garrett clearly doesn’t have anyone else to pass along the information.