I realize that. There's something that's just sort of, I dunno, creepy about a football team having its own miniature golf course. (Well, of course it's only nine holes). I guess it's what is expected today. But looking at pictures of "players' lounges" or a locker room with a waterfall in it, really? I know this is in lieu of not being able to pay the players...and athletes are used to special treatment (oooh, to get promoted to the athletic locker room was a Big Deal, your own tall locker--where your sweat through T-shirt could dry out so you could wear it tomorrow!)...but I think that I would be, or at least would like to think that I would be, kind of embarrassed to walk into some chrome and glass Taj Mahal. The latest strength and training facilities, but a locker with a video screen with my face on it? Egad.
But yes, it's an arms race. And this is an old man talking, remembering smelling old gyms that had produced champions. Different times...