When Oakland Raiders employees were called to a meeting with chief executive Amy Trask on March 11 — the day the NFL’s lockout started — there must have been a lot of worry in the room, After all, teams had already made noises about the kind of cost-cutting measures since put in place by the Miami Dolphins and several other teams (namely, pay cuts).
But Trask had a different idea in mind, and a different way to present it. Those Raiders employees who wanted to sidestep their own seemingly inevitable pay deductions and possible layoffs would need to sell tickets in an amount that equaled at least 10 percent of their salaries during the length of the lockout.
That’s for all employees, though we’re pretty sure that Trask and team owner Al Davis are exempt. “I understand that some clubs are taking different approaches,” Trask recently told USA Today’s Jarrett Bell. “(But) a very strong argument can be made that this is something that staff members of every team should be doing all the time.”





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