A huge outline in the shape of a football covering a ceiling that has been raised hovers over it all.
“There’s nothing like it in the world. It’s a locker designed only for them,” says Sam Allen, owner of the Texas-based Longhorn Locker Company charged with the project.
“What the Bengals have is the cutting edge. This is the most intricate, most expensive, most involved, and required the greatest number of hours.”
The Bengals are the only team anywhere to have lockers with internal lighting from eight LEDs certified by a national safety standard. Each locker has nine drying fans to work on sweat-soaked helmets, shoulder pads, and cleats. A lift-up footlocker storage compartment sits in the middle of each, stamped with the “Paul E. Brown,” laser-engraved autograph.
No doubt about it. The days of hooks and hangers have officially gone the way of training camp two-a-days. The planning even included sizing the containers of the largest protein drinks so they’d fit the cupholders in each locker.
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