Bengals’ food flunks, but are players’ expectations just too high?

Bengals’ meal service gets an “F.” Apparently, a buffet isn’t enough anymore.

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Did Cincinnati Bengals players give the team’s meal service an “F” in a Players Association survey? This news (“How Bengals players grade Zac Taylor, Mike Brown and what they gave an ‘F,’” Feb. 27) makes me feel terribly out of touch and unschooled about the finer things in life.

I worked for the Bengals and had access to team meals through 2017, and I naively thought the food was great, on par with the main restaurant of a four-star hotel. And, of course, you got everything you wanted, with multiple choices, and the chefs were always up for special orders when possible. The team offered a full breakfast and lunch and had plenty of food, if not a complete service, at day’s end. And I’m sure it’s better now than eight years ago.

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It makes me wonder what players in other cities expect and get today. Do clubs dispatch an omelet station to a player’s apartment if the mood strikes at midnight?

Jack Brennan, Clifton