Lofa Tatupu drives drunk (and at twice the speed limit).

Well, this was certainly an unfortunate piece of bad news from the Seahawks’ offseason. Lofa Tatupu was pulled over in Kirkland on Friday night/Saturday morning with a blood alcohol content of .15, going 60 in a 30. That’s very drunk (and very stupid to drive so fast while obviously being hammered…being at .15 is well beyond any point where you can convince yourself that you’re sober).

Obviously it’s disappointing that he made this mistake, and thank God nobody was hurt. I don’t think this suddenly makes Lofa a bad guy, it doesn’t strike me the way the violent crimes of other NFL players do…it’s certainly more a crime of stupidity than a crime of malice, just a kid with a feeling of invincibility doing something irresponsible and dumb, endangering himself and others. Let’s all hope that the public embarrassment and the threat of a possible suspension for a second offense (both deserved) are enough to deter him from stepping out of line again.

I won’t be shrugging in this manner if he joins the Warren Moon club and starts doing this on a repeat basis, but for now I’ll simply hope that he has learned his lesson and won’t do anything like this again.