For those of you out there blaming Daily Douche's like Stephen Ross (Marc Kohn) and other NFL owners slashing employee salaries despite the fact that they're billionaires, let's give it up for one of the ultimate good guys: Al Davis.
Davis and CEO Amy Trask have come up with an ingenious plan to incentivize full time employees to sell season tickets to recoup the salary that arguably shouldn't be stolen from them in the first place. In order to regain their former salary level, employees will be allowed to shamelessly peddle tickets to friends, family, and anyone else they deem fit.
Seriously, Al? Your franchise is already the laughing stock of the NFL and now you go and pull this. Sports executives with decades of industry experience cold calling friends and family to sell some club seats? This is sickening, even more so than Al's general health and appearance. Leave the cold calling to 23 year old recent graduates who think if they sell a lot of tickets a position will magically be created in Football Operations for them.
The Coliseum, which averaged just over 46,000 fans last season, is a hard enough sell when football is scheduled to be played. The stadium naming rights were recently purchased by Overstock.com and will be rebranded immediately. Unfortunately for Raiders employees, the only thing that is ever overstocked about that 30 year old stadium is their supply of tickets.
Maybe I'm being a little hard on Al. It should be pretty easy to sell tickets for a team who features first round pick studs like JaMarcus Russell, Fabian Washington, and Darrius Hayward Bey.
Super coach Lane Kiffin ordering a 76 yard field goal takes you out...one 15-0 lead and they think anything is possible...
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