How the Cowboys' intricately planned the turkey leg in the Salvation Army kettle TD celebration days ahead

Another Thanksgiving, another Dallas Cowboys touchdown celebration in a giant Salvation Army kettle.

This time, it was a wild one: The Cowboys pulled out a turkey leg from the kettle after a KaVontae Turpin touchdown pass from Dak Prescott, and the QB chomped on it.

So how did they pull that off? It was REALLY intricate. Per a transcript from after the game, Prescott told reporters that there was “probably a two, three-day long process of whether it [would] be a 15-yard penalty and whether coach [Mike McCarthy] would accept it.”

Here’s more from Prescott on how he went through with it further:

“I actually go talk to coach before every game and sure enough, I caught him as he was talking to Jerry [Jones] and I mentioned it. Of course, Jerry liked it so, yeah. At that point my direction was just to make sure we’re up and the game was in hand and so the touchdown to CeeDee [Lamb] and the following two-point conversion, if you watch I’m kind of like, ‘Is it time? Can we do it?’ I’m like, no we’ll get another one. Sure enough, right after I threw the one to Turp, I was like, yeah let’s go for it.”

The disrespect was planned from the jump. My guy @jonmachota said the team had turkey wrapped in to-go containers in each one of those Salvation Army baskets around the field. Diabolical.pic.twitter.com/EiUa2e9aHe https://t.co/i0PCQb90kN

— Ben Standig (@BenStandig) November 24, 2023

Man. pic.twitter.com/s4WsD0eJ9D

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) November 24, 2023

Per ESPN, there were FOUR turkey legs hidden, one in each kettle. Amazing.