I can't believe what I'm reading. This is ridiculous.
MARVEZ: Lambeau visitors cry foul
By ALEX MARVEZ
Sun-Sentinel
Posted October 27 2002
The Dolphins are about to learn that the Green Bay Packers have taken home-field advantage to a new level.
Because of renovations to Lambeau Field, the Packers are using two trailers to serve as the visiting team's locker room. Cramped and lacking adequate bathrooms, Atlanta cornerback Ray Buchanan compared the facility to Alcatraz.
"There was nothing NFL about it," said Buchanan, whose team opened the season in Green Bay. "That was XFL, if that. It was nasty."
"The showers looked like we were down in Sudan. Open showers. Open stalls. There weren't any doors ... It looked like it was from back in the day when [Vince] Lombardi was there. I might have seen his autograph in some concrete."
The trailers feature only two commodes, three urinals and 10 shower nozzles for the entire team. The coaches' locker room doesn't even have that, featuring just one unenclosed commode and two showers.
"When we walked in I thought, `Holy hell,'" Cleveland defensive coordinator Foge Fazio said of his team's recent trip. "I'm sure when it's all done it's going to be very nice, but the poor teams that have to play under those conditions. ... "
Roughly 70 percent of a $295 million Lambeau Field renovation project is complete, but a new visitors' locker room on the south side of the stadium won't be ready until next season. The temporary solution was spending $200,000 for the trailers.
"We admit it's not the perfect situation," Packers President Bob Harlan said. "It could be worse. We could have still taken everybody across the state [to Madison] and gone to a college stadium. We did the best we could.
"I was very concerned about it when I found out it was going to be in trailers. I went down there several times and looked at it. This year, we knew there would be some inadequate situations. The lockers are clean. It's newly carpeted. It's not what you would like, but I've been in worse."
Let's see if the Dolphins agree after trying to rush out of Lambeau Field to catch the long flight home following the Monday night game.
MARVEZ: Lambeau visitors cry foul
By ALEX MARVEZ
Sun-Sentinel
Posted October 27 2002
The Dolphins are about to learn that the Green Bay Packers have taken home-field advantage to a new level.
Because of renovations to Lambeau Field, the Packers are using two trailers to serve as the visiting team's locker room. Cramped and lacking adequate bathrooms, Atlanta cornerback Ray Buchanan compared the facility to Alcatraz.
"There was nothing NFL about it," said Buchanan, whose team opened the season in Green Bay. "That was XFL, if that. It was nasty."
"The showers looked like we were down in Sudan. Open showers. Open stalls. There weren't any doors ... It looked like it was from back in the day when [Vince] Lombardi was there. I might have seen his autograph in some concrete."
The trailers feature only two commodes, three urinals and 10 shower nozzles for the entire team. The coaches' locker room doesn't even have that, featuring just one unenclosed commode and two showers.
"When we walked in I thought, `Holy hell,'" Cleveland defensive coordinator Foge Fazio said of his team's recent trip. "I'm sure when it's all done it's going to be very nice, but the poor teams that have to play under those conditions. ... "
Roughly 70 percent of a $295 million Lambeau Field renovation project is complete, but a new visitors' locker room on the south side of the stadium won't be ready until next season. The temporary solution was spending $200,000 for the trailers.
"We admit it's not the perfect situation," Packers President Bob Harlan said. "It could be worse. We could have still taken everybody across the state [to Madison] and gone to a college stadium. We did the best we could.
"I was very concerned about it when I found out it was going to be in trailers. I went down there several times and looked at it. This year, we knew there would be some inadequate situations. The lockers are clean. It's newly carpeted. It's not what you would like, but I've been in worse."
Let's see if the Dolphins agree after trying to rush out of Lambeau Field to catch the long flight home following the Monday night game.