Green Bay Packers Rookies Pranked With A $33,000 Dinner Tab
As the NFL season beings, team veterans will usually find some humiliating way to haze incoming rookies. Well, you can say the Green Bay Packers rookies got their money’s worth, after a photo of a $33,000 dinner bill surfaced over the weekend.
Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari posted a photo to his Twitter account, with the caption, “What a dinner, I’m stuffed. Thanks #Rooks,” thanking his new teammates for the lavish dinner.
Via Twitter/@DBak69
With that said, after looking at the 51-item bill, it’s easy to see how a few hungry pro-football players could rack up such an expensive tab. Some notable standouts include seven bottles of Lafite Rothschild 10 ($2,700 each), 12 glasses of Macallan 25 Years Old Whisky ($215 each), and one bottle of Harlan Estate Napa Valley California Cabernet Sauvignon ($1,445 each).
After posting the photo, Bakhtiari’s Twitter blew up with comments and retweets, with Twitter users calling it shameful and, “absolutely ridiculous,” arguing that the bill was too expensive to showcase on social media.
this is absolutely ridiculous. There is no earthly reason to spend this much on a meal. Can you imagine how long a family could eat?
— Roni Jaure (@jauremom) August 26, 2017
Capital Grille even managed to send in a thank you tweet.
What a feast. It was our pleasure serving the team. Best of luck in tonight’s game.
— The Capital Grille (@CapitalGrille) August 26, 2017
However, the internet couldn’t handle the cost of this high-class meal. Thankfully, Packer’s veteran quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, was able to quell the agitation of the masses. To calm everyone’s nerves, Rodgers tweeted that the bill was fake, and was just part of an elaborate prank on Green Bay Packer rookies.
History repeats itself. #relaxpeople #fakebill # https://t.co/bDPLxm8MV6
— Aaron Rodgers (@AaronRodgers12) August 26, 2017
Via/@aaronrodgers12
Thanks to a tweet from Jason Wilde, ESPNWisconsin’s Packers reporter, we learned that Bakhtiari was just getting even. In 2013, Rodgers pranked him into thinking he owed $11,000 for a dinner during the offensive tackle’s rookie season.
Although, it’s still unclear who actually paid for the bill or if the photo was even a REAL receipt.
Even if the Packers spent an entry level salary on dinner, between Rodgers’ $22 million a year and Bakhtiari’s $16 million from last season, it’s safe to say someone was able to take care of the damage.
Now that we all know it was a prank, we can go back to buying overpriced food inside most NFL stadiums.
