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DeAngelo Hall is retired now, but he still has stories to tell about his days as a player. He stopped by the Simms
& Lefkoe Show recently to tell a story about rookie hazing — or how his teammates’ attempt to haze him completely failed, thanks to a reality
TV star.
Hall was a rookie with the Atlanta
Falcons in 2004, and like many players before and since, he had to go through some hazing. In this case, hazing was paying for a weekend in Las Vegas with the Falcons’ defensive backs.
Hall was the eighth pick in the NFL Draft, and he said his teammates felt like he “had money to burn.” In 2004, Hall’s salary was $230,000, and he got a $2.1 million signing bonus. That’s definitely not nothing, but he wasn’t exactly making “pay for your teammates to party in Las Vegas for a weekend” kind of money.
Hall had never been to Las Vegas, so he was excited — until it was defensive back night, and he had to pay for everything. He was blown away by the cost of the alcohol, but he was even more blown away by where their table was situated at the club. On one side was Paris Hilton and her entourage of — as Hall put it — “lovely ladies.” And on the other side was David Hasselhoff and his “crew of lovely ladies.”
Eventually, the Falcons’ defensive backs began partying with both tables, and someone joked that Hall would have to pick up the tab for all three tables. Thankfully, Hall was handed the bill for only his table, but even that came in at $15,000.
But Hilton saved the day and turned the Falcons’ hazing efforts into a failure.
“Before I could even put my card down, Paris took my bill and paid my tab,” Hall said.