$55,000 dinner bill for Dez Bryant!!!!

[Andre]

At some point, Dallas Cowboys rookie wide receiver Dez Bryant was going to get his comeuppance. Teammate Roy Williams all but guaranteed that during training camp.

Bryant made national news in training camp when he refused to carry Williams' pads after practice -- bucking the trend of veteran NFL players hazing rookies. Bryant later said he didn't know about such tradition.

"I'm not doing it," Bryant said then. "I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads."

Williams excused it, saying then that Bryant, who received $8.3 million in guaranteed money from his rookie contract, would just have to take the team out to dinner and get him some new shoes.

Well, that dinner happened Monday night. The final tab: $54,896.

Bryant took the offensive players out to Pappas Bros. Steakhouse. Williams, however, made sure Bryant got the message, inviting defensive players as well.

And guess who was left holding the bill afterward.

"They got the young fella," said Bryant's adviser, David Wells. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."

Players ordered basically everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine.

After checking out the 90-page wine book, it's anybody's guess if anybody took home a bottle of Chateau Latour for $9,000. It's also possible a few players ordered a bottle of PlumpJack Reserve for $600.

No word from Bryant or Williams about the evening ... yet.

[curtdogg81]

A few more of those dinners and Bryant is gonna need to take out a loan.

[Bisket]

dude on the chargers had a similar bill last year.......

[LordCC]

I guess that makes up for him not carrying the pads in training camp. If Williams continues his play from Sunday & Bryant can continue to emerge, the Boys still may have something to say in the NFC.

[mrwho]

if i had 8mil i'll rather pay 55k then carry someones elses pads too...

[cuse_man]

Plenty more coming his way

[Bronson7]

What the hell costs that much?

[chibob]

Originally Posted by Bronson7

What the hell costs that much?

I heard the number and wondered the same..impossible for 30 guys ($ almost 2K each) or so to spend that much, unless they carried the pussy in, or the booze out, or both

[upinya83]

Originally Posted by Andre

Players ordered basically everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine.

After checking out the 90-page wine book, it's anybody's guess if anybody took home a bottle of Chateau Latour for $9,000.

for the guys above who didnt read the post, asking what could cost so much ...

[revnecro1273]

isn't it illegal to take booze off premise?

[upinya83]

Originally Posted by revnecro1273

isn't it illegal to take booze off premise?

its probably different in each state, but here i think as long as its still sealed, you can take it, and it may be different for each type of place, or different licenses, etc -

maybe that's why bars open your beer before they give it to you.

i know i can buy beer from the microbrewery here in town and take it home with me

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by upinya83

its probably different in each state, but here i think as long as its still sealed, you can take it, and it may be different for each type of place, or different licenses, etc -

maybe that's why bars open your beer before they give it to you.

i know i can buy beer from the microbrewery here in town and take it home with me

can here as well..but i think brew pubs are a bit different than just a regular food and drink place...but does probably vary from state to state

[revnecro1273]

sent a message to papas

[Caddyman]

It's def. possible, believe me. I went to dinner with six other people and we spend nearly $3,000. That's with one or two ok bottles of wine. Just think if you had nearly 30 large men. I could see it.

[revnecro1273]

that place doesn't even have sides included with the entres...have to get them separately...at 10 bucks a pop...so yeah it is feasible...especially if they just ordered shit for the sake of ordering it to raise the price of the bill...most expensive meal on the menu is 73 bucks for a 16 oz rock lobster