Roy Williams gets revenge on Dez Bryant

[falcon057]

Roy Williams gets revenge on Dez Bryant
Posted by Andy Benoit

Here’s a story that will either make you smile and say “oh, professional athletes…” or scowl and say “oh, professional athletes…”
D. Bryant (US Presswire)
Calvin Watkins of ESPN Dallas wrote Tuesday that Roy Williams got his payback on Dez Bryant for the whole pads carrying incident in training camp. (Ironic that the payback comes shortly after Williams’ best game as a Cowboy.)

As punishment for breaking the unwritten rookie code, Williams asked Bryant to take the team out to dinner. (Williams also, for some reason, asked for a pair of Nikes.)

Bryant obliged, taking the offensive players to Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Monday night. But Williams also invited the defensive players. At the end of the night, Bryant’s bill was $54,896. That’s roughly $1,000 per player (unless Wade Phillips was there, in which case, we’ll assume each player got only $300 or so worth of food).

"They got the young fella," Bryant's adviser David Wells said. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month." (A dishwasher at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse makes over $50,000 a month?)

Watkins said that players ordered essentially everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine. Pappas Bros. Steakhouse’s 90-page winebook includes a $9,000 bottle of Chateau Latour, though Watkins speculates that most players got the $600 Plumpjack Reserve.

In case you’re wondering, Bryant’s rookie contract included $8.3 million in guaranteed money. (Or, 150 team dinners.)

[Dr. Billings]

$50,000 a month for washing dishes? REALLY!

[falcon057]

(09-29-2010 07:18 AM)Dr. Billings Wrote:  $50,000 a month for washing dishes? REALLY!

I saw that too, can't be right unless Tip outs maybe, I don't know. But I'm thinking about moving.

[JDaveG]

HAD to be a year, not a month.

Had to be.

[Tandy]

Wow! I remember taking a few of our employees out to dinner after a long weekend of physical inventory once and the bill was $3800. I thought that was horrible!

Man!

[JRid]

(09-29-2010 07:23 AM)falcon057 Wrote:  I saw that too, can't be right unless Tip outs maybe, I don't know. But I'm thinking about moving.

That was my first thought too, but then I realized the writer was questioning the comment from the advisor. His advisor said Bryant had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month, which is saying he could make that in a month. No way he actually could.

I can't believe the bill was that high. I guess Bryant bought a lot of love and respect from the team with that dinner. It is definitely good PR for Bryant.

[Peyton]

That's kind of wrong actually.

[vafalconfan]

He should of carried those pads.....could have saved him some$$$$$$$. But really i find it hard to believe that dallas would let this out with all the people out there struggling to make ends meet and this guy has to pay 52,000 for dinner. thats more than the common folk make in one year!!

[Peyton]

(09-29-2010 09:18 AM)vafalconfan Wrote:  He should of carried those pads.....could have saved him some$$$$$$$. But really i find it hard to believe that dallas would let this out with all the people out there struggling to make ends meet and this guy has to pay 52,000 for dinner. thats more than the common folk make in one year!!

I hadn't thought about that, but it's pretty bad PR. It screams of excess, in a time when that's not really the way you want to go.

[Sporkdevil]

I still don't know how you get to that level. $54,000? I suppose this is after whatever 18% gratuity they added on top, but it would still be around $45,000 on food and booze.

They just blew a nice car in one night. The Dallas Cowboys literally pissed out more money in an hour than most people make in a year.