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Once upon a time, goofiness reigned in training camps

By Frank Luksa
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The story, as fabricated by Don Meredith, is that Tom Landry once flew over an obscure village named Thousand Oaks in Southern California, then looked down and was pleased with what he saw. So he blessed the scene by saying, "Let there be a college." Sure enough, California Lutheran University was founded on the site, though Landry's benediction had nothing to do with it. Much later, the coach and the Dallas Cowboys spent 20-odd summers there during the Landry era for their preseason t ...

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