Saturday, April 15, 2000

New 'home' will best NFL's best

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Workout, other facilities toured

County: Bengals violated policy on bids
BY Dan Klepal
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        Paul Brown Stadium will be a once-a-week stop for Bengals fans 10 times this summer and fall. but the $450 million football complex will be the full-time home for the team.

Kicker Doug Pelfry looks at what will soon be the Bengals' cafeteria. (Glenn Hartong photo) | ZOOM |

        The Bengals will move into the stadium June 15, and there is plenty of space for offices, lockers, a weight room, film room, cafeteria and more.

        Bengals business manager Bill Connelly and players Ben Peterson and Doug Pelfrey led the media on a tour of the team space at the new stadium — areas that will be off-limits to the public.

        “From a team standpoint, this is like no other in the league,” Mr. Connelly said, adding that the team will use the practice fields next to the stadium for its mini-camp at the end of the month.

        The weight room is the first thing players will see when they arrive every day. Mr. Connelly said he likes that idea.

        “It will give the mind-set that they're coming to work,” Mr. Connelly said.

        Shaped like a football, the Bengals' locker room is an open room meant to bring the team together. Off the locker room are the weight room, training room, meeting rooms and equipment room — with short hallways connecting each like spokes of a wheel.

        “This room will create a sense of team, which is what they're trying to create here,” Mr. Pelfrey said.

        In the training room is a hydro tub, which is 8 feet deep but has a hydraulic floor that can be raised and lowered.

        The water will be heated to about 100-degrees, and the tub will have cameras underneath the water to monitor players' workouts.

        “You can take a player coming off knee surgery and start them on motion exercises,” Mr. Connelly said.

        The Bengals will be the first team with such a tub.

       

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