Yahoo - The owner of the Pittsburgh Power fired all 24 members of his team during a pregame meal at an Orlando-area Olive Garden. With AFL players set to strike before the 2012 season opener, owner Matt Shaner reacted first, cutting his entire team hours before kickoff of a game against the Orlando Predators. Mid-statement, all the players got up and left," former Power center Beau Elliott told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Every player got up and left while he was still talking. There were 15 to 20 angry, large individuals." The AFL Player's Association was calling for an increase in the $400 game checks paid to most players on each team. The union demanded a 300 percent increase in the minimum salary. AFL owners countered with a $100 raise.
Let me just say this, the owner of the Pittsburgh Power, this Matt Shaner guy, is straight gangsta. I mean, there are power moves, and then there are POWER MOVES. This is probably the coldest move I've ever heard of. Firing all your employees in the middle of the Olive Garden's endless breadsticks and salad? Ruthless.
I just imagine Shaner just watching all the salad bowls come out, the bread sticks hit the table, he's got an evil, Montgomery Burns like grin on his face, watches to make sure they've all taken a bite or two out of their first stick and then boom, drops the bomb on everyone. "Bread sticks good guys? Good, glad to hear it, by the way, your greedy asses are all fired, but please, eat up, the salad and bread are endless."
The thing I don't get is the players leaving. I'm working under the assumption that the team was paying for this meal, no? Fire me all you want, but you should know that I'm not leaving this chair until they physically have to roll me out of the restaurant. The one thing you do not do is leave a bread stick behind, those thing are delicious.
