NFL PLAYERS STRIKE: DAY 3 : RAIDERS : Just Some Routine Taunts

The striking Raider players, or 31 of them anyway, practiced once, and the strikebreaking Raider players practiced twice Thursday as the walkout settled into a routine.

Once again, the strikers taunted the strikebreakers on their way into practice at El Segundo, but there were no incidents.

Joining pickets for the first time was Lester Hayes, who is on injured reserve and is forsaking 1/16 of his $700,000 salary each week of the strike by refusing to report for treatment.

“I believe he said something about it being his destiny to walk the picket line,” player representative Sean Jones said.

Meanwhile, guard Bill Lewis has undergone an appendectomy, but the Raiders can’t put him on injured reserve because the list has been frozen by the league. They plan to bring back Steve Wright, who was cut in camp. Wright is practicing with the other striking players.