APWith the Ravens and Jets already announcing that they’re moving their training camps to their team facilities, and the Vikings announcing that they’ll follow suit if the lockout isn’t lifted by July 18, it’s reasonable for fans who make an annual pilgrimage to their favorite team’s camp to start to wonder if their team is next.
If you’re one of the 200,000 or so who visit San Antonio when the Cowboys have their training camp there, you can be “cautiously optimistic” that you’ll get to see them again this year.
That’s the word from an unnamed source speaking to the San Antonio Express-News, although that source added that the labor situation is uncertain enough that “nobody wants to step up and bet the farm or the house on it right now.”
The source said the Cowboys will “wait until the last minute to decide” whether they can start camp in San Antonio as scheduled on July 25. We’re still hoping the lockout ends soon enough that they don’t have to wait until the last minute.
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200,000 visit training camp? Wow. I knew Texas was a dull place. But I didn’t know it was that bad.
The 200,000 or so who “visit” San Antonio? I don’t think so. The vast, vast majority of the fans who attend Dallas’ practices are from the San Antonio area. Which is amazing since the Cowboys aren’t really San Antonio’s team. The incredible attendance figures for what amounts to nothing more than a series of glorified practices are proof that San Antonio should have its own NFL team to support. How much more proof does one need. I say forget Los Angeles and let’s have a franchise placed in San Antonio where a team would enjoy genuine support. Not fair-weathered support.
cowboys suck man berries…….go lions
I’m “cautiously optimistic” about the condition of Hugo Chavez (wink wink, nudge nudge) and no, I do not care in the least how cruel that makes me seem. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Gotta have impending doom to make any progress? Yep, must have the pressure. Can’t end the lockout and continue to bargain. Same reason compromise couldn’t have started 3 months ago. Tired of this BS.
200,000 visit training camp? Wow. I knew Texas was a dull place. But I didn’t know it was that bad.
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They get huge crowds when they hold training camp in California, too. Don’t be jealous.
I say forget Los Angeles and let’s have a franchise placed in San Antonio where a team would enjoy genuine support. Not fair-weathered support.
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I agree. Texas has high school teams that could rival the Raiders in terms of attendance. Some of them could probably beat the Lions.
SA will never get a team as long as Jerry owns the cowgirls. You can bet a million pesos on that amigos
The great Detroit lions team will go 10 and 6 the weak cowgirls will go 4 and 12.
“They get huge crowds when they hold training camp in California, too. Don’t be jealous.”
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Back East … all that Cowboy stuff … if you’re not working a ranch then you’re probably g’ay.
I say who cares about the Cowboys…and who really cares about San Antonio.
Soulman45 says:
Jun 25, 2011 8:36 PM
The great Detroit lions team will go 10 and 6 the weak cowgirls will go 4 and 12.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations Soulman45; you are officially the 1st person to use the words “great” and “lions” in the same sentence EVER.
Here’s an idea, go post on your own team’s stories.
Oh wait..there are none.
I agree….forget LA…..Nobody in LA wants the NFL back here. San Antonio deserves to have a team. To hell with what Jerry Jones wants!
San Antonio Raiders?
“Soulman45 says:Jun 25, 2011 8:36 PM
The great Detroit lions team will go 10 and 6 the weak cowgirls will go 4 and 12.”
Yes, the great Lions, the only great team with a 0-16 record. Ha ha
Nooo the San Antonio UNDOCUMENTED is the perfect name
Yes, lots of fans go to San Antonio to watch parts of training camp. The Cowboys have had close to 20,000 for a single practice. So what? Lots of things to do in the area. Amusement parks, the river walk, some of the best preserved Spanish-era missions in the US, Schlitterban, lots of golf. Quite a few folks vacation in the San Antonio area. Some of them take in a few practices.
Last year they were convinced they would go to Dallas to host a Super Bowl.
How’d that taste?
Cowboys are also “cautiously optimistic” they won’t totally suck again this year.
The Lions may not be “great” yet (like a previous poster claims) but the Cowboys are certainly worse at this point.
@bhindenemylines
This might help any thing for a cowgirl!!!!!!1
http://www.mlive.com/lions/
I am going to Dallas to see them play in the Super Bowl
OH OH OOOOOOHHH
That was last year they didn’t make it not even the play off.
OH OH they draft before “The Great Detroit Lions “
The joke’s on you. The Super Bowl was in Arlington.
@bhindenemylines…. That Is awesome!!! You know as a Packers fan myself I gotta say, I am expecting a run for our money on those 2 games against the Lions. They need a QB that actually has name recognition, not some jerkoff
im not a coyboys fan but can the lockout please be over so stuff like this are not stories anymore?
“krow101 says:
Jun 25, 2011 6:35 PM
200,000 visit training camp? Wow. I knew Texas was a dull place. But I didn’t know it was that bad.”
Wrong. Texas isn’t dull. You just underestimate exactly how popular the Cowboys are down here.
They don’t call Texas football country for nothing.
bresilhac, honestly even if San Antonio got a team I bet a lot of them would still be Cowboys fans. They are die hard down there.
The Lions may not be “great” yet (like a previous poster claims) but the Cowboys are certainly worse at this point.
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Based on what?
The Lions may not be “great” yet (like a previous poster claims) but the Cowboys are certainly worse at this point.
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You realize the Cowboys beat the Lions 35-19 with Jon Kitna at QB last season, right? Not only did the great Jon Kitna outrush everybody on the Lions, he ran for a 29 yard TD (and threw 3 TD passes) haha Jon Freaking Kitna!
I’ve loved the San Antonio Training Camps. I’ve gone every year they have had them there since ’07. I’m from Austin. Many of us travel from all over the place to go see the TC so we can see with our own eyes if the media is blowing smoke up our butts or not.
Keeping their Training Camp in Texas should be something that Jerry wants. Not going to Oxnard or anywhere else. We aren’t a baseball team!!!
Soulman,
Thanks for the link. Now if I ever want to do research on a team that the Cowboys beat last year with a backup QB and who a few years ago went 0-16, I can.
And just so you know, the word “great” means that the team has actually won something. Last time I check it has been 12 years since a playoff appearance, 18 years since a division title, and 54 years since an NFL championship; .
So to complete my post, if that’s what “great” means, so be it.
I hope my team is never “great”. I’d rather have them be known as “Champions”.
And very original use of “cowgirls”. Did you come up with that all by yourself???
Good one, you got me.
Do we actually have people trying to talk smack about the Lions? The “never been to the Super Bowl” Lions? The “10 straight losing seasons and counting” Lions? The “we’re 89 games UNDER .500 as a team” Lions? The “they haven’t been relevant since Eisenhower was in the White House” Lions? The “we can’t sell out the Silverdome even with Barry Sanders on the field” Lions? That’s the only Detroit Lions franchise I’m aware of. Those guys must be talking about some parallel universe where the Lions are successful.
@bhindenemylines
I am glade the link will be of help the cowgirls is the one that really need the help maybe you can get dress and lean a hand.
@ Soulman45
Go back and read that last statement you posted again. To quote Dean Wormer, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son”.
@ Soulman45
Obviously based on your logic, knowledge of NFl history, and spelling skills, the 45 is your IQ.
Good luck in high school. You’re gonna need it.