Cowboys and Saints fined $500,000 apiece by NFL after brawl-filled joint practice

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints have been fined $500, 000 apiece by the NFL after their brawl-filled joint practice Tuesday.

Key points

• The league confirmed the fines Thursday after requesting video of the tumultuous workout at the Cowboys ' training camp base in Oxnard, California.
• Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remarked his team will appeal the "pretty stiff" fine, even though he understood why the NFL issued such a hefty penalty.
• "The Competition Committee has made sportsmanship – including at joint practices – a point of emphasis over the past several years, " the league remarked in an official note.

What happened

Meanwhile, the league confirmed the fines Thursday after requesting video of the tumultuous workout at the Cowboys ' training camp base in Oxnard, California.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remarked his team will appeal the "pretty stiff" fine, even though he understood why the NFL issued such a hefty penalty. The Cowboys additionally plan to fine their own players who were involved in the fracases.

"The Competition Committee has made sportsmanship – including at joint practices – a point of emphasis over the past several years, " the league remarked in an official note. "All clubs were remined by memo prior to training camp of their responsibility in preventing unsportsmanlike behavior at joint practices that has the potential to result in injury."

The bottom line

In short, cowboys and Saints fined $500, 000 apiece by NFL after brawl is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.