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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 3:56 pm
What a slap in the face to Dallas Cowboys fans. Great move, Jerry. BTW, southern californians do have a team to follow, the chargers. JJ has such an ego.
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July 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Wow, That team is a total train wreck.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Makes me wish I still had free HBO . . .
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
So HBO still does the training camp series, but Showtime gets “Inside the NFL”?
That’s a little goofy, you’d think Showtime would’ve bougjt both properties.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Mike, you misspelled Pacman.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
the circus indeed
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Hey you forgot to mention that the Dallas Cowboys have the most talented roster in the league.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
… only to extend their playoff losing streak when the G-Men beat them in their own house.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Not only does Southern California have a football team to follow, but they have a pretty good one that went to the AFC Championship game last season. That’s a pretty lame excuse when the truth is that California is a better place to spend your summer than Texas. Last time I checked Nebraska doesn’t have any pro football teams either but there’s a pretty obvious reason why JJ didn’t decide to move training camp to Omaha.
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July 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Um …really the cowboys are a train wreck. I heartily laugh at all of you haters. The cowboys fixed their holes and should steam roll thru their schedule. They are also THE ONLY TEAM to not have a player arrested in the past two years.How is this a slap in the face to cowboys fans,asshat? its actually a great idea have you ever been to texas in july and august? The climate is much nicer in so cal for a training camp , and much less condusive to injuries.And as far as the giants last year they got hot and took advantage of our depleted and incompetent secondary. That wont be happening this year.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I don’t like the Cowboys and I’ll openly admit that before saying anything else but I can’t see how their local fans aren’t upset about this. Wouldn’t you want to go see your team gear up for the season in person(without having to go out to California)? I just don’t get it.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Steamroll that schedule all you want as long as we get a repeat performance from Tony Choko.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Yeah, and its now 4220 days since they won a playoff game. Go ahead and “steam roll” through the regular season schedule.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Don’t forget Texas gave us Purple Drank:
2 oz. codeine cough syrup
6 oz. Sprite
2-3 Jolly Rancher candies (any flava for flava flave)
ice
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
wait does hot-button mean hot topic or that they have nice belly buttons? cus if its the latter then florio might be gay
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
benjitsu: Tony Romo in a playoff setting 0-5 (0-2 in the NFL and 0-3 at Eastern Illinois). Wade Phillips 0-4 in the playoffs (although one of those losses was the Music City Miracle). The Cowboys will most likely make the playoffs again. And immediately be bounced by whoever is lucky enough to be slotted against them. The Giants will win the division and the Cowboys will again be left making excuses for why they couldn’t get it done.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
The question is, why do the Cowboys choose a dumpster of a town like Oxnard? There are much more flattering places in Southern California to choose from.
On the other hand, Pacman, errrr, Adam Jones should fit right in with all the gang activity/violence that goes on in Oxnard. Maybe he can make some new friends a shoot somebody during one of his off-nights.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Ha ha, what did I tell you, TRomo, about worrying about your own guys when you started up with the “L.A. Steelers” garbage? I TOLD you Jerry Carpetbagger has no loyalty (unlike Druck) — you think it’s some coincidence the ‘boys are camping out in La La land?
Hollywood Cowboys. Nice ring to it, eh TRomo?
Maybe I should change my name to “Nostradamus.” Did I call this or what?
Ha ha ha!
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
There was a time when the Cowboys heading to California for spring training meant that Tom Landry was getting serious about a run to the title…now it means the circus (with Jerry Jones as the ringmaster) will be trying to just keep the stars from getting in trouble or saying something stupid to the press.
I’m sick of Jones pimping the Star.
Go Cowboys.
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:57 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.
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July 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
The Cowboys had originally planned to hold training camp in San Antonio again this year, but a scheduling conflict with the Alamodome prompted the change to Oxnard. There is precedence for this as the Cowboys have, more than once, held training camp in Oxnard, and before that, in Thousand Oaks. This is actually a good idea, and some fans consider it better for the team, as anyone who has spent a July or August in Texas can tell you that the weather during those months is not exactly ideal for working out in full pads.
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July 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
“which could make folks [except] to see much more drama when they see an actual circus.”
I am going to guess that you meant expect.
I lived in Texas for three years, fall is a little humid.
Peace
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July 18th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
It’s America’s Team™. They can play anywhere they want to.
They could tour like Cirque de Soleil.
Just be grateful they’re not in your town because your local team will get no run those weeks.
Dallas Cowboys > NFL
Don’t forget that.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
“benjitsu: Tony Romo in a playoff setting 0-5 (0-2 in the NFL and 0-3 at Eastern Illinois).”
Are you sure that you don’t wanna include golf, high school and pee wee football and cribbage in there?
The Cowboys have a great following in SoCal and Arizona because they’ve had many many camps there in the past.
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July 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
“Maybe I should change my name to “Nostradamus.” Did I call this or what?”
Maybe you should change it to “Nostradumbass”. Really, the Cowboys are moving to California at the same time that Jerry Jones is spending three quarters of a BILLION dollars out of his own pocket to build a new stadium for them in Arlington. Did you bump your freaking head?
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