May 14th 2008 6:13PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Seahawks, NFC West
Seahawks linebacker and all-around swell guy Lofa Tatupu was arrested on Saturday for suspicion of drunk driving. Not good, particularly with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell obsessed with cleaning up the league’s image.

Here’s the thing, though: even really good people lapse into idiocy every once in awhile. Most of the time, it goes unnoticed (I feel confident in writing that if everybody who ever drove drunk were arrested for it, we’d all have police records); last weekend, Tatupu got caught. But unlike those Pacman Jones/Chris Henry apologies-to-save-my-ass/job, Tatupu sounds legitimately contrite: “I take seriously my role as a leader on this team, and in the community,” the statement read, “and because of that I’m disappointed and embarrassed by the level of poor judgment I used last weekend. Thankfully nobody was hurt. This will never happen again, and I hope through hard work on and off the field to begin earning your respect and trust again.”Tatupu also added that if he ever has a hankerin’ for Mickey D’s after sucking down a few adult beverages, he’ll have Kato Kaelin drive him. (Ah, yes, 14-year-old O.J. humor, that never gets old. And by “gets old,” I mean, of course, “was funny.” Moving on…)