“I had no clue,” LaFell said with a wry smile when asked about the $500,000 bonus he earned on the season’s final day.
“I was more worried about trying to get Andy (Dalton) that 314 yards,” to break Dalton’s own single-season franchise record for passing yards. “I knew if I went out there and just played my game I was going to get catches like I’ve been getting the last few weeks.”
While LaFell was talking to reporters, teammate Wallace Gilberry walked by and cracked, “Hey, Brandon, let me hold $10,000.”
When a reporter suggested LaFell might be on the hook to buy dinner for some of his teammates, he said, “They gotta come find me.”
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