Bad Weather- What About Training Camp?

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(08-16-2018, 05:04 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I played football for 10 years, never practiced in a bubble and survived 2 a days in August 95 degree heat my high school years. Oh and I did not get paid millions of dollars either. Suck it up buttercups, it will be OK.

Perhaps the fact that you weren't making millions of dollars is why you were outside in the elements.  I'd imagine a lot of the current Bengals players spent as many, if not more hours in the elements during their formative years as you did. They are professionals now, and professionals tend to get preferential treatment over unpaid amateurs.

I know I've personally seen this in my life. The more money I've made over the years and the more important the job I've had, the more side perks and extras and conveniences I've been given. I worked minimum wage and got nothing. I worked in an office and there was an office coffee pot. I had a more important job at a university and there was a coffee pot within spitting distance (and it had those fancy k cups in whichever variety I asked for). I worked at an ad agency on Madison Avenue and there was fancy coffee, free bagels, a free keg and entertainment/game room a few floors down, and other stuff brought to us by company employees.

Work hard, get better, get better jobs, get more stuff. What of it? Treating a guy who is apparently worth millions to your organization like he's some high school kid is bad business, particularly when he knows that your competitors don't treat his peers like amateurs.


FINAL EDIT: Anyways, saying you played HS football outside and the Bengals should is like me telling someone who puts his Lexus in the garage that I park my 1992 grand am outside.