It's an annual tradition, but that doesn't make it sting any less when it actually happens. Pretty much every year, the veterans on pretty much every NFL team get themselves treated to a wildly expensive dinner paid for by the rookies.
The Green Bay Packers just went out for theirs, at Capital Grille in Denver, Colorado. The bill was ... not cheap.
What a dinner, I'm stuffed. Thanks #Rooks 😉 pic.twitter.com/PY9qUB3rvv
— David Bakhtiari (@DBak69) August 26, 2017
That's not nearly enough food or drink to feed the entire team, so obviously just a portion of the Packers' current 90-man roster went out for this dinner, but let me tell you this: the guys that did go, they did it right. Ribeyes, filets, lobster bisque, calamari, caviar ... and some preposterously expensive drinks.
Three Remy Martins for $915. 12 glasses of Macallan 25 ran them $2,580. Four bottles of Merus Cabernet Sauvignon cost $6,000. Seven bottles of Lafite Rothschild totaled $18,900. They got overcharged for some of this stuff, of course, but the vets getting a comped meal presumably didn't care about that part.
Basically, the whole thing was a slightly more expensive version of this:
One can only hope there was a complementary "Thanks for dinner losers" cake at the end of this meal.