The only thing I don't get is "Kobe Beef Burgers"

Kobe beef, it is actually Kobe Beef and not just American cows with the Japanese DNA, is flavored ENTIRELY by the texture. It's like otoro, or fatty tuna in English, only it's made of cow.

Grinding it up would spoil pretty much EVERYTHING good about it. It would be like shredding the Mona Lisa into recycled paper and letting a third grader doodle on it.

stevie1der: Totally, I prefer my Kobe beef steaks unsullied by the grinder,

It's not a matter of the grinder sullying them. Kobe beef is delicately marbled by massage and beer. It's an exquisite pink color when you're more than 3 feet away and I have yet to fail to read the bottom row in a vision test. It's really special.

But when you take a grinder to it... the result will be pretty much the ruination of anything special about it and you'll be left with something indistinguishable from the bargain basement ground chuck at Walmart.

And wagyu? Don't pay extra for that. It's just a bullshiat marketing term.

What I cannot figure out is why he needed 65 Kobe Burgers, 150 lbs of prime beef, 3 or 4 kegs, 26 bottles of champagne. It was him and 5 friends. 6 people.

This guy is a snapshot of the shiat that is wrong with this country.

wow. i could do that same trip for under $5000. rv rental, gas, steaks, and $9.00/bottle champagne. split amongst the group - $950 a piece. still not worth it.

I don't understand why they're ragging on him. I mean, it's not like he would have been reimbursed if the Packers had won, right?

rjakobi: $240,000 and the guy can't afford to take his wife with him?

Take his wife? To a football game? You're obviously not married. All she'll do is step in front of the game when something big happens or decide that the stadium is a great place to air prior grievances, just like she does at home. You do not take your wife to the game. You just don't.

stevie1der: doglover: The only thing I don't get is "Kobe Beef Burgers"

Kobe beef, it is actually Kobe Beef and not just American cows with the Japanese DNA, is flavored ENTIRELY by the texture. It's like otoro, or fatty tuna in English, only it's made of cow.

Grinding it up would spoil pretty much EVERYTHING good about it. It would be like shredding the Mona Lisa into recycled paper and letting a third grader doodle on it.

Totally, I prefer my Kobe beef steaks unsullied by the grinder, and instead cooked to a nice lean well-done with plenty of A1 on top. Yum!

And you know what goes great with that? A nice glass of Glenfiddich and Mountain Dew.

jayhawk88: Wow. Is this a sign things are about to turn drastically in this country? When NFL.com is comfortable putting up a story making fun of this dude who was willing to drop that kind of money to see a game? Down to calling him a "1 percenter"?

I mean sure the Post is going to do this kind of thing, but I can't believe the league-run website is OK with it.

The NFL didn't get 1 penny more from him than they did from anyone else who bought 6 choice tickets to the game. On the other hand, if this article increases traffic to their site (which it probably will, given that Fark is likely not the only aggregator that will pick it up), they did.

funktilious_j: What I cannot figure out is why he needed 65 Kobe Burgers, 150 lbs of prime beef, 3 or 4 kegs, 26 bottles of champagne. It was him and 5 friends. 6 people.

This guy is a snapshot of the shiat that is wrong with this country.

Would you rather he sat on the money?

I'd rather see people who have large amounts of money SPEND IT, and get it back into the economy.

What is actually wrong with this country is that it's harder for an Average Joe to become successful, and that some people makes wads of cash for seemingly little actual input.

Prying it out of their hands, and keeping most of it here in the US is a good thing, though, no matter how "excessive" it might seem.

Dawg47: Even seeing all of that, I don't see how it adds to $240k

Maybe he bought the motor home for the trip? I'm sure the tickets also cost a bit.

It comes out to $30k per person... figure at least $10k each for the tickets, maybe more to get them in one contiguous set of seats at the 50 yard line.

LesserEvil: Dawg47: Even seeing all of that, I don't see how it adds to $240k

Maybe he bought the motor home for the trip? I'm sure the tickets also cost a bit.

It comes out to $30k $40k per person... figure at least $10k each for the tickets, maybe more to get them in one contiguous set of seats at the 50 yard line.

It's too early for math, I know.

As far as the ticket prices go, $10k seems quite high for a divisional playoff game. I'd guess that he had some contact somewhere who hooked him up...even at 10k each, that leaves $180k on food/entertainment/transportation. Not ungodly, but definitely high.

For all of y'all saying "he can spend his money however he wants", you're missing the point. He not only spent all that money to see his team lose, he did it with 5 Giants fans and at the cost of missing his 28th anniversary. If you resent his having that much money to burn, it's poetic justice. If you don't, it's still a pretty damned epic fail.

Dawg47: LesserEvil: Dawg47: Even seeing all of that, I don't see how it adds to $240k

Maybe he bought the motor home for the trip? I'm sure the tickets also cost a bit.

It comes out to $30k per person... figure at least $10k each for the tickets, maybe more to get them in one contiguous set of seats at the 50 yard line.

40k/person, isn't it? And I wasn't banking on the tix being quite that expensive, but the "seats together" thing is a great point.

Yeah, my math isn't too good this morning for some reason. I guess I was including the two "waitresses"

jayhawk88: Wow. Is this a sign things are about to turn drastically in this country? When NFL.com is comfortable putting up a story making fun of this dude who was willing to drop that kind of money to see a game? Down to calling him a "1 percenter"?

Were they wrong? People that make over 380k a year are part of the 1%, and this guy just dropped 240k on a road trip.

He's probably part of the "tenth of a percent" club.