Wes Welker And His Entourage Were Roughed Up In Aspen This Weekend

by Evan Sporer | 11:33 am, June 19th, 2012

Things have just gone downhill for Wes Welker since roughly the eight minute mark of the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVI.

First the dropped pass. Then the Giselle freakout. Then a contract dispute that still has him holding out. And now, WELKAH and his posse can’t even get into a fancy Aspen restaurant without a reservation.

Wait. Hold on a second… Wes Welker has a posse?

He does! The Patriots wideout doesn’t really strike me as the posse type, yet he and his entourage of goons were denied access to a fancy Aspen restaurant that we’re guessing has a fireplace (our only familiarity with the famed ski town is by way of the seminal 1994 hit, Dumb & Dumber).

Welker wanted to “precelebrate” his wedding, so he and his band of merry hangers-on attempted to bypass security and just STROLL RIGHT ON IN. That didn’t fly.

Welker and six friends — out for what seemed to be an unofficial bachelor party — tussled with security when they tried to enter the Patrón tequila-sponsored “Summerology” event Friday night, part of the weekend’s 30th annual Aspen Food & Wine Classic.

Sources say Welker strolled up to the bash at restaurant Above the Salt with his posse and tried to rush in without checking in with party staffers. When security tackled the group, witnesses said they still wouldn’t cooperate, and demanded to be let in right away.

“Security tried to subdue the group” when a brawl almost broke out, a source told us. “Security then physically restrained [Welker] and his group to break everything up.”
We’re told Welker and his rowdy crew weren’t arrested, but cops threatened to do so. “Security calmed them down and kicked them off the property,” a source told us.

I guess Wes Welker would be recognized in New England. Maybe you can even stretch that to the Northeast. But is this dude really in a posse position in Aspen, Colorado? Are all the fanatics going to rush Wes on their snowboards and skis? Is Wes expecting to get pelted by snowballs?

I’m going to pose one other question: Who precelebrates his wedding with a trip to a fancy restaurant? Unless this was a precursor to something much more sordid, Wes has got it all wrong.

Also: no wonder he’s having trouble negotiating his new contract. He can’t even talk his way into a restaurant.

[TMZ via the New York Post]

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