Working For The Dallas Cowboys: Day 4

Today was a rather slow day out at Valley Ranch today. Thanks a lot NFL lockout! But nonetheless, I still had things to do. My day started out by sitting in on a meeting with my mentor, Todd Williams. Since Todd is basically the man in charge of making sure everything within the organization is operating smoothly, he has many meetings. This meeting dealt with an extra practice field that the team is trying to build at Valley Ranch. The field would replace a grass one, that is currently located where their old indoor practice facility, which unfortunately collapsed, used to be. Involved in the meeting was Todd, Chris (the head groundskeeper/maintenance guy), and the sales rep for the turf field company. The field turf rep presented a good bid to Todd, so it seemed that the meeting was a success. Following the meeting, we went to Hard Eight Barbeque with some of the Cowboy's college and pro scouts, it was awesome. I ate a lot of food, so I felt like a nap, but luckily didn't take one. Fighting through my urges to nap, I was tossed over to Todd's associate Adam, where learned more about how to read and analyze professional contracts. Adam hit me with some challenges today. He handed me the contracts of Cowboy's wide receivers Miles Austin and Dez Bryant. In Dez's contract, Adam told me to find the money guaranteed to Dez at signing, and the total money Dez will make in the contract. As for Miles' contract, Adam told me to find the money Miles will make over the six years of his contract, and the rolling average of money over those six years. Miles' contract was challenging at first, since he signed a contract extension that will begin in 2011. However, Dez's contract was also challenging, as it included many incentives and clauses, since he was a rookie. Even though today felt like I was in math class again, I really enjoyed it. Too bad it has to end tomorrow.