Jets go high-tech (and old school) with locker room redesign

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The New York Jets are looking noticeably antithetic these days. Not lone does the roster see galore caller faces, astir notably backmost Justin Fields, but the locker country itself is new, acknowledgment to an utmost makeover during the five-week interruption earlier grooming camp.

The players tin relax, formal for signifier and retrieve afterwards successful a state-of-the-art locker country that includes 92 customized lockers (weighing 1,000 pounds apiece) astatine their year-round signifier facility, the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center.

Gone are the shabby, impermanent lockers for practice-squad players that blocked traffic. Each caller locker features a video surface that players tin usage to reappraisal plays, ticker highlights oregon person messages from first-year manager Aaron Glenn. The Jets are the archetypal pro oregon NCAA squad with lockers that diagnostic a afloat automated video display, according to the team.

Wait, there's more. Each locker comes with a customized seat, a USB port, chill retention compartments and 3 fans -- not the cheering kind, but physics ones that volition adust sweaty instrumentality aft practice.

Look up! Hanging from the ceiling is simply a 230-square foot, three-dimensional Jets logo, illuminated by 500 lights and weighing successful astatine 2,000 pounds.

If a subordinate wants a haircut oregon a shave earlier heading home, helium tin halt by the caller barber studio. Outfitted with 2 refurbished barber chairs and an old-fashioned barber rod (green and white, of course), the workplace adds an old-school interaction to the facility.

"It's similar you're successful a full caller area," antiaircraft tackle Quinnen Williams said connected Tuesday. "It's similar erstwhile you renovate your location and you locomotion into your location for the archetypal time. It's unbelievable. I've been present six years, and past this year, I get a caller locker room."

The Jets moved into the installation successful 2008, backmost erstwhile Eric Mangini was the caput manager and Brett Favre was the quarterback. But this marks the archetypal large renovation, and it came lone a fewer months aft the enactment took dense disapproval successful an anonymous subordinate survey conducted by the NFL Players Association. The players gave their locker country a D-plus grade, which ranked 26th successful the league, and proprietor Woody Johnson received an F, the lowest among ownership.

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The Jets accidental they had been readying the renovation earlier the NFLPA study paper became public, but they didn't commencement the enactment until the decision of minicamp successful mid-June. The players received a bully astonishment upon reporting to grooming campy connected Tuesday.

"It's ace dope," Williams said.