Italian Marco Fosatti, who plays professionally for internationally renowned Inter Milan, says he was shocked by some of the things he observed from the window of the team bus on the trips between the hotel and the practice fields.
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While fans have been buzzing about the idea ever since the league green-lit a cold-weather championship game in New Jersey's New Meadowlands, rules dictating minimum requirements for hotel rooms and practice facilities probably nix the idea.
Plug in a set of headphones and hook up a guitar, and you can approximate the sound of a rock concert without disturbing everyone in your immediate vicinity (Slash says he uses it to practice in hotel rooms).
"In the late 1980s, Hilton was among the first luxury hotel brands to utilize the service, " says Mike Bare, co-owner and president of Bare International and one of the original founders of the MSPA. Three decades later, it's common practice among hotel brands around the world. (Proof: LRA recently opened a satellite office in busy Singapore.) And soon enough, its taciturn nature may be over.