Levi’s Visiting Locker Room Meant to “Underwhelm” Opponents
It's a nice locker room, but not as nice as the 49ers'.If the Niners beat the Bears in Sunday's first regular season game at Levi's Stadium, it might not be just because Kap was the better passer, or Harbaugh the better coach.One factor not to overlook: the home team has a way better locker room.Step inside the 49ers side and enjoy plush red carpeting, and be impressed with 90 10-foot-tall walnut-wood lockers in a sprawling 3,600 square-foot open space, created so that Coach Jim Harbaugh can look at his community of players eye-to-eye and speak to them all together.And for the away team? A divided space so that the team can't connect and communicate the same way Harbaugh and his troops can. Beige walls and carpeting. Lower ceilings."I would say mundane finishes," Levi's Stadium Project Executive Jack Hill told NBC Bay Area. "We want these guys to be calm and underwhelmed," referring to the visiting team.Hill said they couldn't make the locker room too uncomfortable. After all, the stadium is scheduled to host Super Bowl 50 in 2016.It's certainly not unheard of in sports to assign the away team the dingier digs.The Portland Trail Blazers found a snake in their...
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