Jul 30th 2008 2:03AM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Cowboys, NFC EastThe earthquake that hit Southern California yesterday was felt at Dallas Cowboys camp in Oxnard, CA. The camp is about 90 miles from the quake’s epicenter.

The Cowboys were at lunch at the time after a morning of meetings and before an afternoon of practices. That meant players were in various locations at the time of the quake:”It wasn’t nothing major, just like the ground was moving,” defensive lineman Marcus Spears said. “I was in my room upstairs, so we had to get downstairs. That was my first time. You don’t get those in Louisiana.”

“I was off-guard, just thinking maybe the wind is blowing. Then I realized the wind can’t blow me that hard,” Greg Ellis said. “That was my first, hopefully my last. … It’s one of those things that I can say I’ve been through it. Nothing happened, thank God. And I don’t want to go through another one.”
Ellis was doing a radio interview at the time of the quake. According to DeMarcus Ware, some of the guys were on the toilet when the quake hit (”Some of the guys were on the toilet and they said that … Excuse me. I’m not going to talk about that.”).

But the best story could be from head coach Wade Phillips.”I was on the elliptical (exercise machine) and I was going. I thought, ‘Man, I’m really going now, shaking this place down.’ So I didn’t even notice it,” Phillips said. “I thought I was really working out.”