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Joe Flacco was peer pressured into spending thousands on massage chairs

Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports / Reuters

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco isn't particular flashy in his spending habits, but he has made at least one regretful purchase in the past.

On the latest episode of "The Lounge" podcast, Flacco was asked to name the dumbest thing he's ever spent money on, and confessed to once purchasing too many massage chairs.

"The dumbest thing I bought were … how many did I buy? … I bought a handful of massage chairs a few years back," Flacco said, according to Ryan Mink of BaltimoreRavens.com. "Like the big Brookstone ones that put you all the way back."

Flacco didn't come to the decision on his own, though - he was pressured into buying the chairs while playing cards with teammate Dennis Pitta.

"Of course Pitta, he's the ultimate peer pressurer, the person who wants you to do dumb things. So he started getting in my ear about doing it," Flacco said. "I might have gotten five of them, a couple thousand dollars each."

The chairs are now in the possession of one of the members of the Ravens' security department.

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