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The Cleveland Browns. What can be said about the dismal franchise that hasn’t already been said? The Browns are currently 0-14, but what makes their winless season more tragic is that they’ve lost four games by just a field goal. That lends to the idea that the Browns are cursed. No two ways about it.
But when you dismiss the fact that being associated with the Browns franchise is not much more than an opportunity at a punchline and that living in Cleveland is punishment enough, you can start to find silver linings in wearing the seal brown and burnt orange. Each player makes a lot of money, certainly a lot more than I make. Even the rookies!
Case in point: The Browns defensive line veterans went to dinner with the d-line rookies and racked up a bill that resembled the cost of a 2017 fully loaded Audi A3–$37,361.35. A sum in which Browns defensive line rookies – defensive end Myles Garrett, defensive tackle Caleb Brantley and defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi – were stuck splitting.
It’s never a good sign when the sales tax alone is over $2,200.
#Browns defensive line rookies (Myles Garrett, Caleb Brantley, Larry Ogunjobi) were stuck with a bill over $37,000. pic.twitter.com/y4cuUr8uAH
— Josh Edwards (@EdwardsCBS) December 19, 2017
As 247 Sports points out, Garrett was the No. 1 overall pick, Ogunjobi was taken in the third round while Brantley was taken in the sixth round. Their salaries vary immensely. The rookies earn a combined $22,814,543 this season, with Garrett making $20 million of that total. Each player’s share of the bill comes out to roughly $12,454.
If we take Larry Ogunjobi’s $976,816 yearly salary (excluding his $981,000 signing bonus) and the dinner bill portion he had to pay ($12,454) and extrapolated that to decipher the affect of the bill on the average American’s yearly salary ($45,000), it would come out to $573.70. Shit, fuck that noise. I’d just chew and screw.
[h/t 247 Sports]