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From today's Dallas Cowboy blog:
Dez Bryant buys steak dinner for teammates; final bill $55,000
Posted at 4:23 PM on Tue., Sep. 28, 2010
Dez Bryant continues to shower his teammates with gifts, the latest a trip to a Dallas steakhouse.
"I'm here eating drinking with my dogs I go to war with every Sunday doing it big at pappas steakhouse!!!!" Bryant wrote on his Twitter.
Michael Smith, floor manager at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, refused to comment on the gathering. But numerous Cowboys players described the experience.
Wrote receiver Miles Austin: "Food is crazy here!!!"
Wrote receiver Jesse Holley: "Woke up this morning and scramble me some cheese eggs to go w/ my left over 20oz Kobe steak from last night. Mmmmmmm!"
Wrote running back Felix Jones before the dinner: "Our offensive rookies are buying dinner ... I remember those days. Sure don't miss them the least bit."
Bryant helped foot the bill for the dinner.
"They got the young fella," Bryant's adviser, David Wells, told ESPNDallas, which reported the bill to be $54,896. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."
This isn't the first gift Bryant has offered teammates. The rookie -- who declined to carry Roy Williams' shoulder pads earlier in camp -- presented his fellow receivers with Air Jordan Olympic 7s. He also picked up the Madden NFL 11 video game for himself and Williams.
"I did that out of the kindness of my heart,'' Bryant said of the shoes. "It didn't have anything to do with rookie hazing. I just want to build a great relationship with those guys.''
And what about the Madden game? "I know Roy loves video games, so I got it,'' Bryant said. "That's all about trying to build team chemistry. I feel if you've got that, you play a lot harder.
"There were some things I did at Oklahoma State, like I bought the whole wide out crew dog tags and they had their name, their number and freak time on it. That's what our receiver coach had called us. I felt like that brought us together.
"I just want to do my little part here.''
Sad thing is a lot of these guys who took part in this decadent booze-and-food orgy will be broke in 5 years. If every player who was on the roster attended this bacchanal drunkfest, it comes out to $1,037 per player!!! I wonder how many bottles of Dom Perignon or shots of Hennessy were wolfed down by these guys??!!!
I don't know what it's like to have more money than you know what to do with but I don't think I'd be spending it this way even if I did.
I wonder if he left a 20% tip (about $11,000 if he did!!!)?
Link is here:
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/dez-bryant-buys-steak-dinner-f.html
Dez Bryant buys steak dinner for teammates; final bill $55,000
Posted at 4:23 PM on Tue., Sep. 28, 2010
Dez Bryant continues to shower his teammates with gifts, the latest a trip to a Dallas steakhouse.
"I'm here eating drinking with my dogs I go to war with every Sunday doing it big at pappas steakhouse!!!!" Bryant wrote on his Twitter.
Michael Smith, floor manager at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, refused to comment on the gathering. But numerous Cowboys players described the experience.
Wrote receiver Miles Austin: "Food is crazy here!!!"
Wrote receiver Jesse Holley: "Woke up this morning and scramble me some cheese eggs to go w/ my left over 20oz Kobe steak from last night. Mmmmmmm!"
Wrote running back Felix Jones before the dinner: "Our offensive rookies are buying dinner ... I remember those days. Sure don't miss them the least bit."
Bryant helped foot the bill for the dinner.
"They got the young fella," Bryant's adviser, David Wells, told ESPNDallas, which reported the bill to be $54,896. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."
This isn't the first gift Bryant has offered teammates. The rookie -- who declined to carry Roy Williams' shoulder pads earlier in camp -- presented his fellow receivers with Air Jordan Olympic 7s. He also picked up the Madden NFL 11 video game for himself and Williams.
"I did that out of the kindness of my heart,'' Bryant said of the shoes. "It didn't have anything to do with rookie hazing. I just want to build a great relationship with those guys.''
And what about the Madden game? "I know Roy loves video games, so I got it,'' Bryant said. "That's all about trying to build team chemistry. I feel if you've got that, you play a lot harder.
"There were some things I did at Oklahoma State, like I bought the whole wide out crew dog tags and they had their name, their number and freak time on it. That's what our receiver coach had called us. I felt like that brought us together.
"I just want to do my little part here.''
Sad thing is a lot of these guys who took part in this decadent booze-and-food orgy will be broke in 5 years. If every player who was on the roster attended this bacchanal drunkfest, it comes out to $1,037 per player!!! I wonder how many bottles of Dom Perignon or shots of Hennessy were wolfed down by these guys??!!!
I don't know what it's like to have more money than you know what to do with but I don't think I'd be spending it this way even if I did.
I wonder if he left a 20% tip (about $11,000 if he did!!!)?
Link is here:
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/dez-bryant-buys-steak-dinner-f.html
