While there are certainly players all around the League who will vocally complain about the injustice of being stuck with the wrong Ferrari, the majority of players are "living the dream" on an entry or League-min contract and they don't get paid at all unless they're on that week's 46-man game roster. Practice squad players (of which there are only like 10 or 12) make $12k/week, but there's no guarantee they be on a practice roster from week-to-week. And at any rate they only get paid during the season. There's no paycheck in June. (They get a stipend or per diem during camp/OTAs, or something goofy like that). It was kind of a joke that the Giants' goombah QB DeVito lived at home with his parents; we only knew about that because he was the QB, we don't hear about the 100s of other first- or second-year guys who still live in their parent's home in some silly Harry Potter arrangement.On one hand, the lack of some type of family daycare for gameday is utterly inexcusable at this point. It was listed as a huge sour note last year, and I can't come up with any reason why they couldn't implement something tomorrow if they wanted.
On the other hand, some of these come off as individuals who are living a mostly charmed existence (making tons of money while doing something they love) dodinting about how the Joneses next door have the Ferrari 812GTS while they're stuck with the F8. It's legitimate, I guess, but kinda...something.
All that said, if these things matter to players and could in any way put you at a competitive disadvantage when recruiting Free Agents, suck it up and make the improvements. My curmudgeon 'bunch of prima donnas' view matters little to them, obviously.
So making players pay for their own meals at the facility, or not having free child care, stuff like that has a big impact on a chunk of players.
