During training camp, the Eagles locker room at the NovaCare Complex, a long, expansive highway during the regular season, is crowded with a double row of lockers down the middle of the room. These are the temporary quarters inhabited by the influx of camp players, most of whom, in the famous words of Buddy Ryan, will be allowed to “get on with their life’s work” by the time the real games approach.
Every year, however, some players are able to escape the median strip of portable lockers to the safe haven of the more lush, permanent stalls that line the room, but it is a difficult game of Frogger and traffic is fierce.