LOS ANGELES -- Wearing shorts and T-shirts, and with sandals in hand, the Las Vegas Raiders trudged across the sand of Huntington Beach. For first-year Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, who grew up only 25 miles north in Compton, it was the quintessential way to end a nearly three-week stay in Southern California for training camp. "When you think of Southern California, you think of the beach," Pierce told NFL Network.
"We're going to do our jog through at the beach. ..
. Get those toes, get those feet out." Southern California has been the hot -- or perhaps more fittingly, cool -- spot for NFL training camps this summer.
It could be considered the Cheese League west. Up to six teams (Packers, Vikings, Bears, Saints, Chiefs and Jaguars) populated Wisconsin and bordering Minnesota -- and their cooler climates -- from the late 1980s to early 2000s to make up the Cheese League. For the first time in California's history, five teams -- the Raiders, Dallas Cowboys , Los Angeles Rams , Los Angeles Chargers and New Orleans Saints -- held training camp within a 102-mile span from Ventura to Orange County, and of the eight NFL teams that opted to travel away from their home practice facilities, four landed here.
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