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With no team in Los Angeles, entrepreneur extraordinaire Jerry Jones realizes that folks in Southern California are looking for an NFL franchise to follow.
And so Jones likes to pack up the operation and send the team from Texas to Oxnard, California for training camp.
This year, the effort is being described as a circus, which could make folks except to see much more drama when they see an actual circus.
The Cowboys have a brash and outspoken owner, a $1 billion stadium waiting for the team’s arrival in 2009, Super Bowl expectations for the coming year, a head coach with a short leash, his eventual replacement already on staff, and hot-button players like Tony Romo, Terrell Owens, Roy Williams, Terry Glenn, Tank Johnson, and Adam Jones.
And NFL Films will be there to record every moment of it, for eventual display on HBO.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
First off, the Cowboys have gone to California for training more years. They actually permanently moved camp back to Texas last year, but because of scheduling conflicts with the Alamo Dome, they had to move it back to California this year temporarily. The decision was made based on familiarity and cooler California weather, not because of some Hollywood marketing ploy.
And anyone saying this is a big marketing move has never been to Cowboys training camp in Oxnard. Oxnard itself is a middle-of-nowhere town, and the camp facilities themselves aren’t exactly suited for Holly. Muddy dirt parking lot, a couple of trailers selling merchandise, and some bleacher seating behind a chain link fence. Not exactly glamorous.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
“That’s a pretty lame excuse when the truth is that California is a better place to spend your summer than Texas.”
Yeah. You can’t beat wildfires, rolling blackouts and $5/gallon gas.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
“Maybe a tan Wade Phillips will be more telegenic…Seriously, does Jerry think training camp will really excite the people of southern California? I mean, we’re talkin’ about practice. Not a game, practice. ”
Not just practice. Dallas Cowboys practice! He’s not holding it in Oxnard to get anybody excited though, they had to go somewhere else because the Alamodome was booked. I don’t see the big deal, the Cowboys have had over 20 training camps in Cali
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July 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
yeah benjitsu, they should “steam roll” their oponents…..straight to a first round defeat in the playoffs, just like the past 12 years plus.
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July 18th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
The Cowboys have a great following because this country is chock full of pathetic, front-running, pretending frauds. If, by the grace of God, the Cowboys endure a sustained period of losing they’ll be just another team like they should be. Just about all of the pretending frauds will fade back into the woodwork of their respective cities (like vermin, they’re everywhere). All of this America’s Team, merchandise sales, prime-time TV nonsense will also come to a merciful end. Want proof? See the Boston Celtics example. They were great for a long period of time, got all of the PR, got all the spotlight, prime time TV, merchandise sales, etc. Then guess what happened? They stunk for a long time and then nobody cared anymore -until this year.
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July 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am
@ Vox, A tan Wade Phillips less 50 pounds.
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