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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of a Cowboy Life, the

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Speaker 1: storytelling podcast presented by Smoothie King Blending goodness to fuel

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Speaker 1: your greatness. I'm Brady Tinker. This week we tell you

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Speaker 1: a story about a yearly ritual all across the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the Rookie Dinner. Generally, one young player will get picked

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Speaker 1: by the veterans to buy twenty or so men a dinner,

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Speaker 1: an expensive dinner, and generally pranks are played at the

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Speaker 1: great expense of a featured rookie. Here is a peak

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain of what goes on with NFL players

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Speaker 1: during the season behind the scenes. Please enjoy Cowboys Rookie Dinner.

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Speaker 1: Rookie Dinner is okay, you're the new guy. You're paying

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Speaker 1: for dinner. We had a bunch of leftover cash from

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Speaker 1: our online meeting room. We'd always use it towards the dinner.

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Speaker 1: But we're not going to tell the rookie that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we want him to do some things. That robust voice

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Speaker 1: is former Cowboys offensive guard Corey Proctor. Corey served his

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Speaker 1: tenure as a hard nosed offensive lineman during the Romo era.

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Speaker 1: Any player from that era is going to have tons

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Speaker 1: of stories to tell. However, today's story, he's focused on

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Speaker 1: what the Cowboys players call the rookie dinner. Rookie dinner

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Speaker 1: is okay, you're the new guy, you're paying for dinner. Typical,

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Speaker 1: the rookie will take out his position group, so it'll

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Speaker 1: just be linebackers or offensive line and receivers or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. Any position group for the Dallas Cowboys will

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Speaker 1: carry with them a healthy appetite. However, the offensive line

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Speaker 1: and those that hang out with them eat like locusts.

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Speaker 1: Everything in sight disappears. You need to check to make

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Speaker 1: sure you still got your fingers. And having a rookie

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Speaker 1: pay the bill for a feast like that is a

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Speaker 1: stark reminder of the pecking order fell locker room. If

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Speaker 1: you are rookie, try to avoid it at all. Of course,

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Speaker 1: this rookie dinner was Doug Free, his fourth round draft pick,

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Speaker 1: just retired a couple of years ago. We had a

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Speaker 1: couple of other rookies who are undrafted, and so all right,

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Speaker 1: we're doing rookie dinner. This is all offensive line, tight ends,

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Speaker 1: and running back, so it's three position groups. You had

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Speaker 1: a good group. Welcome to the NFL, kid, Hey, thanks

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Speaker 1: for chiming in. Jordan lewis good to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: A fresh young rookie is now prime for some good

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Speaker 1: old fashioned NFL veteran hazing, and a nice size group

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Speaker 1: of massive professional football players demands a dinner venue that

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Speaker 1: serves great food and meat. Where'd you guys end up?

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Speaker 1: We're coming to this nice restaurant called Papa's Brothers here

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Speaker 1: in Dallas, and we love the place and it's a

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Speaker 1: high end steakhouse. We come in and they put us

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Speaker 1: in the side room because we're a bunch of idiots,

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Speaker 1: a right, and they don't want a bunch of meatheads

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Speaker 1: causing a ruckets. So we've got twenty thousand pounds of

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Speaker 1: elephant reigning into this room. And it's funny because you

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Speaker 1: see the expressions on all the rest of the people's

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Speaker 1: faces out there. They're like, holy crap, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of meat. We need to put our order in right now.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of meat is right meat walking in

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Speaker 1: and meat in bellies walking out. These NFL rookie dinners

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Speaker 1: are notorious for the amounts of food and libations consumed,

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Speaker 1: but we'll get to that a bit later. What cowboys

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Speaker 1: were on this field trip anyway, Corey so we're sitting

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Speaker 1: at this kind of long rectangular table and sitting at

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Speaker 1: the head of the table. We had Marco Rivera, who

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Speaker 1: was three or four time pro bowler originally from Green

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Speaker 1: Bay with the Cowboys, Flozell Adams, Andre Gerard who's usually

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Speaker 1: passed out by his third bowl of lobster bisk He

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Speaker 1: always billed it, but he always showed up typically late.

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Speaker 1: We had Mark Colombo, who's the old line coach with

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys now, Marian Barber, Julius Jones, Jason Witten was

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Speaker 1: there right and Doug was sitting right next to him

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Speaker 1: and kind of go around the table. So we had

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Speaker 1: a pretty good group of guys, yep, a pretty darn

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Speaker 1: good group, a pretty massive group too, who love a

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Speaker 1: little fun at a new teammates expense, and they love

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Speaker 1: a lot of damn food. We get this dinner started,

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Speaker 1: it's always super rowdy. A bunch of wine, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of steak, lobster like the high end stuff order like

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Speaker 1: Louis the fourteenth. I want to say it was like

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Speaker 1: seven hundred an ounce. It's crazy. So it's tasty, though,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, at twenty four hundred dollars a bottle

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine that Louis the thirteenth cognac named

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Speaker 1: after King Louis the thirteenth of France, must be something

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Speaker 1: approaching a nectar of the gods. Did you shoot it

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Speaker 1: or sip it? We gotta sip it. We're not a

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Speaker 1: bunch of animals or animals. We're not monsters animals indeed,

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Speaker 1: but endly teammate animals, the kind you'd want to share

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Speaker 1: an expensive dinner at a fancy steakhouse with rookie. Dinners

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Speaker 1: in the NFL are notorious for big spreads and even

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Speaker 1: bigger checks at the end of the meal. It's not

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Speaker 1: unheard of for some players that drop tens of thousands

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Speaker 1: of dollars to satiate their teammates palettes. Dez Bryant's bill

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Speaker 1: was reportedly fifty five thousand dollars. Hey, Corey, how much

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Speaker 1: is this one gonna cost? Our rookie Doug free So

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Speaker 1: we go through this dinner. The waiter comes back with

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Speaker 1: the bill for over eight grand, and he holds it

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Speaker 1: up and he's like, all right, Doug, this is yours.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, a signing bonus in the

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Speaker 1: NFL for a fourth round pick was a round four

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars with a base salary in the neighborhood

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Speaker 1: of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a year.

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Speaker 1: It's a nice payday, But Doug Free was far from

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Speaker 1: a Rockefeller and spending eight grand on a dinner for

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Speaker 1: your teammates, it just has to smart a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Kids right out of college just got us for a

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Speaker 1: signing bonus. It's not like it's crazy, but it's a

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Speaker 1: lot to him. I was an undrafted rookie to Detroit.

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Speaker 1: Eight thousand was my entire signing bonus. Hey, Corey, a

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Speaker 1: little sidebar here, please, sir, Since you mentioned eight thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars was your entire signing bonus, did you have to

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Speaker 1: pay for a rookie dinner? The worst thing I had

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Speaker 1: to do was get Chrispacreme donuts for everybody, and even

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Speaker 1: then I got made fun of. They weren't hot enough.

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Speaker 1: No one likes a cold donut, Corey. But a bill

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. We had a bunch of leftover cash.

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Speaker 1: We didn't tell Doug. From our online meeting room. We

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Speaker 1: We'd always use it towards the dinner. But we're not

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Speaker 1: going to tell the rookie that. You know, we want

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Speaker 1: him to do some things. Okay, a little financial helper

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Speaker 1: Doug with this big check, but they're gonna make him

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Speaker 1: earn it. You know. As I've grown to know many

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Speaker 1: understand that the offensive line unit holds a special bond

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Speaker 1: amongst their own. Always they always have each other's backs

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Speaker 1: almost so he gets it. He's got this wine and heays,

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Speaker 1: all right, Doug, this is your bill. We'll help you out.

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Speaker 1: You got to do something for us. And there it

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Speaker 1: is the catch. These guys spend hours every week lifting

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Speaker 1: down giant men aiming to kill their quarterback. But if

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Speaker 1: you're a rookie, you have to provide the light moments,

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Speaker 1: the entertainment, if you will. So what kind of punishment

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Speaker 1: is all these leftover melted butter containers. People were dipping

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Speaker 1: sure exactly what all was in there. Maybe some flippings

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Speaker 1: but it was the lobster butter that kind of threw

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Speaker 1: that's sixteen year veteran tied end for the Cowboys Jason

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Speaker 1: Witten talking about Doug chugging melted butter with beard hair.

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Speaker 1: As delicious as that sounds, keep in mind this butter

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Speaker 1: has been used all night by sweaty, sticky fingered men

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Speaker 1: No problem, Yeah, I'll do that. That's a healthy payday.

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Speaker 1: Chug a pint ful of melted butter for three your end.

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Speaker 1: If you're twenty three and big as a school bus.

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Speaker 1: Sure that sounds doable. Its words spreads around the rest

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Speaker 1: outside right now, a room full of rowdy NFL players

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Speaker 1: and the entire wait staff of Poppas brothers all gathered

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Speaker 1: a bunch of idiots that we are, a bunch of animals,

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Speaker 1: we got to start chanting, right, So we got a right, Doug,

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Speaker 1: on the count of three, you're gonna start putting this back.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. So we all counted down three, two, one, Chug, chug,

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Speaker 1: and he starts slamming this thing back. Doug, you put

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Speaker 1: it down like a champ, just right there in his chair,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's getting disgusted. We've established this is a room

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Speaker 1: full of the strongest men in Texas. But arm strength,

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Speaker 1: leg strength, they are not akin at all to the

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Speaker 1: I do have a weak's stomach. So he starts making

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Speaker 1: from day number one. Doug, you know, he came in

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