What in God's name does this have to do with doing what rookies are always EXPECTED to do. It's understood. He's not bigger than the team nor the game. Dez will probably take Williams spot very, very soon. Hell he may even have a decent career in the NFL. But as far as going public and telling the press he ain't gonna do what "rookies" are supposed to do? He just dug a huge hole for himself in the lockeroom and in the press. He's showing a TON of disrespect for the game. You'd be a fool to think Irving, Rice, Montana, and so on didn't have to go through rookie hazing.
Either that or you know nothing about organized sports.
bryant's track record leads me to believe he does think he is bigger than the NFL & his team. His attitude problems go back to Okie State...& now this? nothing was learned? He should be more concerned about being a good teammate... on a team, that is expecting to reach the Super Bowl. I have no clue what the union & owners are negotiating in the new C.B.A...but one thing I think should be included is a rookie salary cap. So dumbass punks like Bryant, that have never played a down in the league...are forced to prove themselves first. Before getting handed millions and millions up front.
yes you're right, i don't know anything nor have i ever played organized sports. Oh, unless you count the ages of say 6 up through a full athletic scholarship to play baseball in college.
Look, should Bryant have just taken the pads and carried them. Yes he should have. But what I'm saying is I don't care. It's flat out not a big deal and wouldn't even be in the news if it wasn't Dez Bryant and the Dallas Cowboys. If E.J. Wilson, the Seahawks 4th rounder refused to do it you would've never even heard about it. It was made to be a bigger deal than it is because of the player and the team he plays on. Do you really believe Bryant is the first rookie ever to refuse to do stuff like this? Of course he isn't. Rookies refuse all the time. In fact, Jack Lambert told the vets to kiss his ass he ain't singing when he was a rookie. If you truely believe that every rookie just excepts it and does whatever the vets want because they think they are expected to go along with it because they are rookies then you're the naive one not me.
Oh and by the way it isn't just "understood" and "expected" that all rookies will do it. In fact several coaches including Bill Walsh, Dennis Green, Jim Zorn and Mike Holmgren ect. have no hazing policies. Read Roger Craigs book titled tales from the sf 49ers sidelines. He talks at length about how there was no hazing on teams he was on.
So should Byrant have just done it and gotten it over with. Sure he should have but lets not pretend this is a big deal because it's not.
What cracks me up is everyone drinking Dez's kool-aid. Kid hasn't played a down of proball and he's already being resepcted. LMAO.
It gets even better. Now he says "He never knew" about the rookie hazing tradition.
You ain't foolin nobody kid. Zip your hole and do what your told. You'll thank yourself for doing so.
It gets even better. Now he says "He never knew" about the rookie hazing tradition.
You ain't foolin nobody kid. Zip your hole and do what your told. You'll thank yourself for doing so.
Updated: September 28, 2010, 10:36 PM ET
Roy Williams pays back Dez Bryant
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At some point, Dallas Cowboys rookie wide receiver Dez Bryant was going to get his comeuppance. Teammate Roy Williams all but guaranteed that during training camp.
Bryant made national news in training camp when he refused to carry Williams' pads after practice -- bucking the trend of veteran NFL players hazing rookies. Bryant later said he didn't know about such tradition.
"I'm not doing it," Bryant said then. "I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads."
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Williams excused it, saying then that Bryant, who received $8.3 million in guaranteed money from his rookie contract, would just have to take the team out to dinner and get him some new shoes.
Well, that dinner happened Monday night. The final tab: $54,896.
Bryant took the offensive players out to Pappas Bros. Steakhouse. Williams, however, made sure Bryant got the message, inviting defensive players as well.
And guess who was left holding the bill afterward.
"They got the young fella," said Bryant's adviser, David Wells. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."
Players ordered basically everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine.
After checking out the 90-page wine book, it's anybody's guess if anybody took home a bottle of Chateau Latour for $9,000. It's also possible a few players ordered a bottle of PlumpJack Reserve for $600.
No word from Bryant or Williams about the evening ... yet.
Roy Williams pays back Dez Bryant
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At some point, Dallas Cowboys rookie wide receiver Dez Bryant was going to get his comeuppance. Teammate Roy Williams all but guaranteed that during training camp.
Bryant made national news in training camp when he refused to carry Williams' pads after practice -- bucking the trend of veteran NFL players hazing rookies. Bryant later said he didn't know about such tradition.
"I'm not doing it," Bryant said then. "I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads."
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Williams excused it, saying then that Bryant, who received $8.3 million in guaranteed money from his rookie contract, would just have to take the team out to dinner and get him some new shoes.
Well, that dinner happened Monday night. The final tab: $54,896.
Bryant took the offensive players out to Pappas Bros. Steakhouse. Williams, however, made sure Bryant got the message, inviting defensive players as well.
And guess who was left holding the bill afterward.
"They got the young fella," said Bryant's adviser, David Wells. "What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month."
Players ordered basically everything on the menu and even took home bottles of wine.
After checking out the 90-page wine book, it's anybody's guess if anybody took home a bottle of Chateau Latour for $9,000. It's also possible a few players ordered a bottle of PlumpJack Reserve for $600.
No word from Bryant or Williams about the evening ... yet.
As far as I'm concerned, freshmen hazing should be limited to high school and college. A player in the NFL is a man and is getting paid well to do well. With that being said, a man pays for dinner. I believe that should be his initiation. Leave the childish manual labor to school boy players.
