Ravens Rookie Gets Stuck with $11,500 Bill For Team dinner

[Cowboyz89]

Id pay 4 guys dinner since thats how many games they won

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Any man falling for that hazing shyt is weak

I didn't allow that shyt when I played football
Nor from dudes un the army

U better be a man regardless of what organization u in

My father didn't raise me to be a bytch

When they know u will catch they ass on the sly and beat them senseless they will back the fukk down

 

[ItzDaKiing]

Are people still really surprised by this? It happens all of the time. It's basically rich people buying other rich people dinner. There's plenty of rookies this happens to, but there aren't goofy enough to tweet out the damn receipt......and for anyone who says they wouldn't pay? Trust me. You pay that fukking bill. It's a rite of passage you don't wanna play with.

FOH fukk them nikkas. Hazing is stupid. Whats the point

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

The Johnathan Martin treatment. There's some shyt you fight about, but this ain't one of them. There's worst ways to be hazed. THESE are the things you fight about. I've seen a teammate be another teammate's personal butler for the year, I've seen teammates taped naked to a goalpost, I've seen a teammate scrub another teammates back in the shower, I've seen teammates tied down and shaved bald, I've seen two teammates taped together in a film room. All of these things happened because they tried to be tough about shyt and not carry some senior's bag on our first away game of the year.

Wanna know what happened to me? Nothing. I just shrugged, understood the game, and carried some bags. After that it was straight. The funny thing is if you can't afford it and tell them you can't afford that meal for real they wouldn't be a$$holes about it then let it slide, but just saying no? It's gonna get rough.

Carrying bags and forking over large sums of your living for other nikkas food are two different things though

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

In my profession. The veterans take the new guys out and buy drinks for them or dinner or whatever. Not the other way around

But we talking about maybe $200 bill. So

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

It's a tax on alcoholic beverages. With beer it's straightforward, but it also taxes stuff related to the alcohol like ice or soda which is where it gets complicated (Order a jack & coke, you get taxed twice). At least that was how it was explained to me last time I was in Maryland Someone else might know better.

Damn. I like to spend money at the bar. I might be staying home if I ever go work in Maryland

 

[SlurRty]

Sticking rookies with a bill for an outrageous meal is a longstanding NFL tradition, and on Monday nightBaltimore Ravens rookie defensive tackle Carl Davis found himself on the receiving end of the financial blast.


Davis tweeted out a photo of his receipt:








Sweet mercy, an $11,500 bill. Plus: $1,800 for a tip? Come on. Speaking as a former waiter, there isnothing a server does at a high-end steakhouse that justifies two months' mortgage payments for maybe three hours of work. Waiting tables at a kid-filled pizza joint, on the other hand...



Also worth noting: Davis has a base salary of $435,000 with a prorated signing bonus of $156,000, meaning a total salary of about $591,000. That seems like plenty, and it is, but consider: if you happen to make $59,000 a year, this is the equivalent of paying $1,100 for a single dinner. Suddenly NFL players going broke after earning tens of millions of dollars doesn't seem quite so surprising, does it?








http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...500-bill-for-team-11-500-bill-for-team-dinner dinner-164824568.html

the way the ravens are player.. they don't deserve to stick rookies with the bill.. we suck

 

[unit321]

Sticking rookies with a bill for an outrageous meal is a longstanding NFL tradition, and on Monday night Baltimore Ravens rookie defensive tackle Carl Davis found himself on the receiving end of the financial blast.

Sweet mercy, an $11,500 bill. Plus: $1,800 for a tip? Come on. Speaking as a former waiter, there is nothing a server does at a high-end steakhouse that justifies two months' mortgage payments for maybe three hours of work. Waiting tables at a kid-filled pizza joint, on the other hand...

It's been going on for a long time. The only difference is, now, we have social media and they can post a picture of the receipt so people can see. Back in the day, it was all under wraps and you never heard about it unless it was brought up in a TV interview.

But the $1,800 tip is a little over 15%, and tip is based on a percentage of the bill, not actual work performed. You can tip $15 for a $100 receipt or $7.50 for a $50 meal, and the actual work the waiter/waitress performed is the same.
That's the thing about being a professional waiter at a high-end restaurant, you can live off the tips because big wigs buy expensive dinners at high end restaurants. The $1,800 football dinner tip is an example of that. $1,800 is not two months mortgage for them. It might be for regular people like you and me. Folks earning in the six to seven figures a year don't look at $1,800 as two months mortgage. The financially saavy make that much in interest in their financial investments so that it doesn't eat into their monthly earnings.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Yup I'd come to the team meeting the next day with that chopper

 

[goatnole]

I'd earn my respect on the field. I ain't paying shyt for them nikkas. I wouldn't expect other rookies to pay when I became a vet either.