When Amy Trask, chief executive of the Oakland Raiders, gathered the entire staff for a meeting at team headquarters on the night the NFL lockout began on March 11 to outline plans for dealing with the work stoppage, apprehension loomed.
Last week, the Miami Dolphins had a similar meeting and announced that effective immediately, salaries for all employees would be cut from 10% to 20%.
The Raiders, though, unveiled details of an incentive plan requiring that team employees sell new season tickets that totaled at least 10% of their salaries during the length of a lockout. This, in lieu of salary cutbacks or furloughs.
“It was like Christmas,” Raiders defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan recalled this week of the reaction at the meeting. “And with a big sigh of relief.”
Bresnahan returned for a second stint with the Raiders this year, having spent the past seven years with other teams — including the past two seasons with the United Football League’s Florida Tuskers.
Although he hasn’t closed a sale, he doesn’t sound worried about reaching his quota
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-sports/2011/05/17/raiders-front-office-takes-unique-approach-to-lockout/
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