Seven Cowboys Fined for Damaging Dormitory

Dallas Cowboys officials, reached in Thousand Oaks, confirmed Friday a published report that seven players had been reprimanded and fined for their involvement in damaging dormitory rooms on the campus of Cal Lutheran Wednesday night.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Friday that the players had been fined for missing curfew and for causing several thousand dollars worth of damage to the facility, which serves as the team’s training camp.

“It was pretty bad,” one player said. “One guy got one of those huge bottled water containers thrown through his front window. A door was kicked in, some chairs were broken and a couple of rooms were trashed. A refrigerator was knocked over.”

Coach Tom Landry was quoted as saying that the damage was “some of the worst” he’d seen in his 47 years of football.

Of the damage, Landry said: “They love to pay for it out of their own pockets. And they will pay.”

The Cowboys, who broke camp Friday and took a plane to Dallas, play host to the Chicago Bears Monday night in an exhibition game at Texas Stadium.