Cowboy Excess

In an effort to start writing again, I am putting up a little e-mail I wrote a while ago analyzing the ridiculous $55,000 (yes, that's correct) dinner had by members of the Dallas Cowboys back towards the beginning of the season.

More to come. Enjoy.

From: Christopher
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 PM
To: xxx
Subject: RE:

$55 grand, in absolute terms, is a lot of scratch to thrown down on a meal. But when you break this down it becomes all the more impressive. Assume 30 (likely more like 35) people ate (22 starters plus some key reserves on both sides of the ball), you’re talking 1800 a person, after tip, which we’ll conservatively assume is 20%. So now you’re at roughly 1530 a person. Assuming everyone took home, on average, 2 bottles of wine valued at $250 each ($500 total) and that the private room costs $5,000 to reserve, split evenly (an extreme overestimation) AND that the table spent $10 grand ($333/person – guess they were sticking with Don P this evening) in cocktails/wine while at dinner implies that each player consumed $530 worth of food, pre tax.

Just how much food is this? I did the math and the ENTIRE MENU prices out for $770. If you order every appetizer, every salad, every entrée, every dessert, etc, you spend $770. This means each player ate 70% of the entire menu, which is conservative because Wade’s big ass likely ate more than his fair share.

No wonder the cowboys were 0-2. They were in a food coma.


Arrivederci!!! (that was for you, Wildcat)