Catch Saints training camp in Oxnard

By Chris Erskine

Aug. 25, 2011 12 AM PT

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Reggie Bush is gone but Drew Brees is still around. So if you’re looking for a quick glimpse of NFL action, make your way to Oxnard, where the New Orleans Saints are making an unexpected pit stop this week for a weeklong training camp.

Practice Thursday and Friday is at 4 p.m. If you’re looking for autographs, you might want to be in place a few minutes earlier. The practices have been lasting a couple of hours.

Directions: North on the 101 toward Ventura, exiting Vineyard. Left on Vineyard. Training camp is 1.5 miles down Vineyard, just past Ventura Road. It is the same River Ridge complex that the Dallas Cowboys have used in the past.

Admission is free.

NFL camps are one of the few opportunities to see players up close, without paying an arm and a leg and another arm for games seats. There are bleachers at the Oxnard complex, or take a blanket and camp out in the shady end zone. About 1,500 turned out to practices earlier in the week.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

Catch Saints training camp in Oxnard

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