Tommy Up, the sometimes controversial owner of Piazza bar and burger joint PYT, received a lot of attention since sharing the $.20 tip LeSean McCoy left behind for a server at his restaurant yesterday. The whole situation blew up into a firestorm of media coverage, photoshopped claims of forgery, and suspicions that terrible service must have been to blame. Up took to Facebook just now to address the situation. You can see the whole post here and below, where we’ve bolded the essential stuff:

“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. I’d be pissed too. But a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and stick up for his friends.”

Up is obviously not going to admit to bad service even if there was bad service, and McCoy is not going to admit that he tipped terribly just because … whatever reason. McCoy probably shouldn’t even say anything else on the matter either, because at this point he can’t really help himself. Let us just all move forward, learning a valuable lesson: Don’t leave a shitty tip — especially if you’re rich — and if you plan on leaving a shitty tip, do it with cash so there isn’t any proof. Also, don’t leave a shitty tip.