The Boys are back in town

The Dallas Cowboys are holding their training camp at the Alamodome in San Antonio so we all headed down to go watch. We have never seen them live so we thought we would take advantage of the opportunity.

It was free to get in, but that is somewhat misleading. Sure it's technically free to enter the place but they charge you $10 to park. They don't allow you to bring in food and drinks but they will allow you to buy $3 bags of chips and $2.50 drinks to keep your children entertained. In spite of this it was quite fun.


We had really good seats. Here's Tony Romo warming up.



The practice began and about half the second string guys were out there. Slowly all the bigger name players began to trickle out like Tony Romo, Tiki Barber, etc. The crowd would erupt in applause for them. Occasionally, some dude came out that no one had a clue who he was or didn't care and nothing- no applause. We felt bad for those guys. We figured they only make $1 million a year instead of the zillion that Tony Romo makes.

We saw some stretching. The PT in me was still amazed that these guys are still doing the old school style of stretching that has been proven to be fairly ineffective at actually getting a stretch in the muscles. I guess some habits are hard to break, but I digress.

There was lots of scrimmaging. Lots of drills set up for the various positions that were interesting to watch. I had never been to a football practice before.

The kids lasted a little over an hour before the urge to jump on the field was too great to overcome. We left the practice but various sponsors had set up a sort of carnival around the dome so we partook of the festivities before leaving. It was a great family day!