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Supersized steaks, $1,500 tabs and lots of laughs: NFL linemen dinners are back and bigger than ever

One by one, the tubs of oysters began arriving.

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers had invited the entire Green Bay Packers offensive line to the Kentucky Derby, which had included a dinner out in Louisville. As each oyster bucket slammed onto the table, young Green Bay center J.C. Tretter grew even more mortified about his misconstrued appetizer order.

"Aaron was like, 'Did you order 12 dozen oyster Rockefellers!?'" recalled Tretter, now the NFLPA president and Cleveland Browns starting center. "And I was like, 'No, I just ordered 12 of them!'"

As Packers tackle David Bakhtiari returned from the bathroom, he overheard someone in the kitchen screaming, "Who the f--- thought they ordered 144 oyster Rockefellers!