Entire Football Team Fired at Olive Garden

We’ve all had bad experiences at restaurants, but it’s hard to top getting fired by your boss over dinner. Worse yet, all your co-workers getting fired as well.

That’s what happened when the entire Pittsburgh Power team of the Arena Football League got let go during a team dinner hours before their home opener.

The AFL Players Association began their strike just before the season opener last Friday and Power owner Matt Shaner wanted to beat them to the punch.

He took the team out for a wonderful dinner at an Olive Garden, where he immediately broke the news to his former team. Reports say that Shaner did not even finish talking when all the team members in attendance promptly got up and left the restaurant.

Shaner said he invited back all but two of the team members and that they will continue the season.

Ten of those players on the team broke away from the players union immediately and returned to help the replacement players beat the Philadelphia Soul.

Since the players who walked out were no longer on the team, the players had to find their own way home and probably had to make dinner plans elsewhere.

[Thx Pittsburgh Tribune]