(Photo) LeSean McCoy only leaves twenty cent tip

And you thought our Monday coverage would be centered around the Eagles’ comeback win over the Jaguars, didn’t you? Instead, the Penn State bowl-ban lift and Ray Rice scandal have topped our Monday coverage, even when it would be really convenient to panic after having to come back from a 17 point halftime deficit to the Jaguars yesterday. Who would have thunk (I hate that word) it?

As it turns out, we will have 16 more weeks to panic, and if the fourth quarter of Sunday Night Football last night was any indication, we likely will be panicking next week.

LeSean McCoy‘s PR team can start panicking-maybe that’s a bit harsh- today, though.

For those of you who don’t know, a ten percent tip is normally customary when you aren’t thrilled with your waiter, but they did bring you your food, and you at least owe them that.

According to waiter Rob Knelly at PYT Burgers, McCoy wasn’t very happy with Knelly’s service.

"“I wasn’t surprised [by the tip], I saw it coming. They were extremely rude. I kept my cool for as along as I could, where you just don’t want them yelling and cursing you,” Knelly told me, saying that the party was apparently not happy with their food and asked “What is this s—?.”"

It’s a real he-said, she-said type story, that frankly, I’m having a hard time caring that much about. The restaurant seems like they wanted their 15 minutes of national fame, which they’ll get. And Shady is an asshole off the field, but it isn’t like we didn’t know that.

Update 6:10 PM EST-Here’s what Shady had to say.

Update 9/9 4:19 PM EST-I’m not so sure why people care this much about this story, but they do. So the owner at PYT had this drawn-out message today. 

Via Facebook

A MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER:

I would like to address the LeSean McCoy tipping situation and our role in it.

For starters, I take total and complete responsibility for sharing this receipt. It was not our server’s decision, it was mine. I am to blame.

I decided to take action after some serious thought. And while I’d like to apologize to Mr McCoy, I cannot in good conscience do so. I stand by my actions one hundred percent.

Mr McCoy and his three companions came into my place on Monday afternoon, and immediately the whole staff was excited. Mr McCoy is a skilled athlete and is one of our beloved Philadelphia Eagles. A true Philly legend and a sports hero. Understandably my staff was really pumped, especially on the heels of they terrific win the day before. (Go Eagles!).

Mr McCoy and his friend sat inside at a booth next to my management and next to me. They were given excellent service. Impeccable service. If anything, our server was a little nervous as was our food runner, because they are big, big fans.

He and his group, from the moment they sat down, were verbally abusive to our staff in the most insulting ways. The derogatory statements about women and their sheer contempt for the staff serving them wasn’t the end, however. After Mr McCoy and his group left I looked over and saw their server, my friend, with his head bowed down and with a very confused look on his face. I took the receipt out of his hand and I couldn’t believe that anyone could be so callous. Mr McCoy had left a .03% tip for our staff. Our staff that was beyond excited to see him walk into our burger joint and was excited to serve him. That’s twenty cents on a tab of over $60. Twenty cents that our server has to split with the food runner and the bartender. Two dimes from an insulting multimillionaire.

I bet Mr McCoy is usually an awesome dude. And everyone has their bad days. But I’m from Philly and have had the pleasure of meeting many of our bad ass sports heroes. Ron Jaworski I met as a kid and I love. Iverson I loved. Mike Schmidt! You name ’em. I love all of our athletes past and present. Hometown heroes who treat those below them with some respect. And maybe Mr McCoy was having a “bad day” after his big victory all that, but the reports of him receiving “bad service” is a complete slanderous lie, and my crew here is better than that and deserves better than that.

At the end of the day, I did what I felt my heart told me to do. And I don’t want anything from Mr McCoy, but…maybe an apology to his server who gave him excellent service would be cool.

Again, I am the owner and I take full responsibility for my actions. Eagles fans, I feel ya. Id be pissed too. But a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and stick up for his friends.

Hate mail should be directed to tommy@pytburger.com. I will respond to you right after I catch up on this mornings hate mail.

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I’m just waiting for LeSean McCoy to post the receipt on Instagram, with these lyrics below.

"Bow in the presence of greatness’cause right now thou hast forsaken usYou should be honored by my latenessThat I would even show up to this fake sh*t."

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