49ers’ Armstead calls $300K rookie dinner a ‘prank’
The NFL rookie dinner with the astronomical tab is now a time-honored custom. The drinks stream, veterans order porterhouses and lobsters and another high-price menu gadgets and rookies decide up the invoice.
It is a well-worn “welcome to the league” transfer.
Veteran defensive linemen for the San Francisco 49ers took issues to a different stage just lately. After they went out, the waiter introduced again a verify that had an 8-ounce lower of Kobe beef for $480, bone marrow for $29, a porterhouse, a number of orders of salmon and sauteed mushrooms. The overall was $7,691.05, which then had a banquet deposit added plus a $200,000 tip. The rookies abruptly thought they needed to pay $322,391.05.
They have been shocked by the sum.
After the video went viral, 49ers defensive finish Arik Armstead, a seven-year veteran, needed to guarantee the world that it was simply an over-the-top prank.
Y’all foolish when you thought a dinner can value 300k . It was a prank. The waitress went overboard . The dinner was 7500 me and a couple of different vets gave 1k in the direction of it . The rooks break up 4500. We had a good time too. I had good vets as a younger participant I might by no means do a rookie like that .
— Arik Armstead (@arikarmstead) December 20, 2022
“That’s good by Arik,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan stated Tuesday. “A lot of guys can be not cool about it and Arik was a little more mature than that, and thank goodness because guys can get ridiculous on that. But I’ve never seen it that ridiculous.”