Have you ever spent $55,000 at dinner?

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blatt

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Dallas cowboys rookie Dez Bryant has.

In practice he refused to carry a veteran player's pads because Bryant isnt into the whole hazing thing. So instead he bought the team dinner. the final tab was $54,896.

He also bought his teammate Roy Williams a pair of shoes. type of shoes yet to be determined.

link to article

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5626300

If this is a repost, God strike me down where I'm standing...
 
lol i'd have to take out loans and set up a payment plan for that dinner.
 
see, this is why american culture is fucked. a guy pays $55,000 on a dinner for a bunch of other rich people.
maybe i'm just feeling negative tonight, but fuck.
 
What the hell could I even order? I like saving my money. I mean I spend money, but I try to be smart with that shit. I could see treating myself to a nice dinner, even though a cheeseburger would make me just as happy. Maybe a couple bottles of good wine, even though I don't know much about wine.

I don't think I could get a bill over 1k without trying really hard.
 
one of the bottles of wine he ordered was $9,000. and he ordered a few $600 wines. Also he was paying for the whole team (team cap in nfl is 52 I think?).
 
trickle down economics.

These guys just dropped $55K in one night. My guess is, the poor ass valet boys just had the night of their life.

And the waitress making near minimum wage? 20% is $11,000.

My guess is, that restaurant doesn't usually make $55K on an average night. Owner probably bought his wife some nice diamond earrings, so the local jewelry store just made some money. Not to mention the commission the worker there just made from the sale.

Who cares how much these guys spend, it's their money. If they're going to blow it on a baller meal, let them. A lot of other little people left with a good night as well.
 
he should toss me some $$$ maybe i could make my life 10000 times better by getting a good education, but... i guess he has to take some of the richest people in sports out to a nice dinner. i guess thats cool.
life is not fair, get over it. work hard and you will be spending 10k on breakfast like nothing happened.
 
Waiter: "may I take your order?"

Whole team: "we'll each take the most expensive thing on your menu."

Probably what went down
 
Word. That's not that bad. 1k per person, trying to rape somebodies tab.

I think i'm going to buy some $200 bottles of wine and re package them and sell them for $1000 to noobs
 
Spending more than $1000 on food is really really fucking hard. Even at really nice restaurants.
Wine and booze though = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
But think about it, if you're going to bust open a $1000 bottle of wine, you're going to want it to come with some bomb assed food.
 
As if this incident doesn't make me sick to my stomach with worry for our society, this just made me straight up depressed:

"It's something we have to deal with. That just the way it is now," Kemmner said with her voice full of emotion as she waited Tuesday afternoon with other parents outside a store for the students to be released from the school. "It's sad. It really is, but that's just the way our society is now."

So what, we're just going to accept this?? What!?
 
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and its been working just fine. cause i work for all the rich second homeowner fuckers who pay me to do there landscaping all so i can ski.
 
"Athletes from the nation's three biggest and most profitable leagues--the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball--are suffering from a financial pandemic. Although salaries have risen steadily during the last three decades, reports from a host of sources (athletes, players' associations, agents and financial advisers) indicate that: By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce. Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke. ... The closest analogue to a pro athlete isn't a white-collar executive. It's a lottery winner - often in his early twenties."
Fucking pathetic. period.
 
Well that could have easily paid for 4 years of college in my state, but if I had money to blow like that I would totally do the same thing. The only difference is I would take 52 strippers out to dinner.
 
I was wondering the same thing so I looked it up. $320,000 salary, $1.95M signing bonus and $570,000 just for making the opening day roster.

I dont give a shit how much money you make, a $55k dinner with no strippers is a complete waste! haha jk any dinner for that much is a complete waste. you might as well throw your money in the shitter.
 
A few thoughts:

Just doing some quick math and not doing time value, taxes, etc. I come up with his weekly salary being around $45,000. I have taken my entire extended family out before and dropped my weekly salary (very special occasions), so in that regard it is not that crazy. But how can you expect him to have any respect for money, he just won the lottery and with 0 financial skills he is going to blow it.

In my opinion sports are ruining America, At least everything above the D1 level. They encourage stupidity and the majority of professional athletes have the education level of 7th graders. Play pretty much any college sport and you get special treatment and your education suffers. Alumni invest in sports teams and not education. Our whole education system operates at a net loss just so the television networks can cash in. The old model use to be sports tickets and television fund education, now it funds more sports spending. Look at basketball, if a guy does anything but African American studies he is considered a Scholar. It is no longer about the game, it is an entertainment industry. There is really no difference between the NFL and the WWF. Some athletes forget that they are entertainers and do really stupid shit.

Let me ask you this, if you got that type of money dropped in your lap, and every guy around you was spending all he could, would you save it up and make sound intelligent investments?

I play fantasy football and will watch the playoffs in pretty much every sport so I can't really talk but it is out of hand.

 
they stuck him with the bill so in the end he got respect for being joked on.

btw i love all the kids on here saying how much they hate rich people or dumb bullshit like that because i KNOW there's a few of them that don't have to pay for college, only have to work a part time job and have successful parents. harden up you jealous pieces of shit. your lives are nothing to complain about. just being on a computer and being able to ski as a sport is a testament to that.
 
Thats pretty much what the tabs sums up to for every diplomatic dinners...of course, all on the tax payers money. Trust me "diplomatic" dinner seem to happen more and more often.
 
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