Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Meat The Team

Posted Aug 18, 2006 by Jeff Houck

Updated Aug 18, 2006 at 02:24 PM

Buried in our end-of-training-camp coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was this delicious morsel from Tribune reporter Katherine Smith:

STEEP STEAK: Cost of the double porterhouse at Morton’s Steakhouse - $84. Cost to feed about 20 Bucs offensive players - $40,000. Sticking the rookies with the bill - priceless.

As part of training camp tradition, the players went out on the town the night before camp broke and frequented some of the nicer restaurants in the Orlando area, with the team split up by position.

The offensive line and quarterbacks gathered at Morton’s in Orlando on Wednesday night and racked up a rather large bill.

Among the rookies footing the bill were their first- and second-round picks, G Davin Joseph and T Jeremy Trueblood, probably thankful they got a signing bonus.