Washington’s NFL rookies forced to foot $22,000 bill at team dinner

It's a very costly tradition indeed.

Every year in the NFL, the rookies for each team are given various extra jobs by the veterans, from carrying their pads in and out to training to buying the donuts and coffee for the squad each morning. But few of the rites of passage endured by the first-year players take quite the toll of the rookie dinner, when the rest of the team dine out at the young players' expense. It sounds like great fun, until you realise it is the lowest earning players on the squad, many of whom might not make to a second year, but the ritual endures and the guys on Washington's defence hit the town last night to celebrate their comeback win against Tampa Bay on Sunday. And boy did they celebrate, the 25 or so players racking up a $22,000 bill by the end of the evening. Although when there are guys on the team with nicknames like Terrance 'Pot Roast' Knighton, it's little surprise things started to add up. https://instagram.com/p/9U1xctGXqh/?taken-by=jus_showoff Let's have a closer look at that bar tab, actually. We'd love to know who had the Shirley Temples, and that $70 Jack Daniels had to hurt, but it's the dram of 25-year-old Macallan whisky that really catches the eye. Cheers to Donal O'Hagan for sending this our way. If you have something you would like to share with us, send it to editorial@sportsjoe.ie or hit us up on Facebook and Twitter