Golden Tate Theft a Joke for Seattle Seahawks, but Sets a Horrible Precedent

June 10, 2010   ·   Michael Schottey   ·   Jump to comments

The Seattle Seahawks franchise and fanbase should be ashamed of themselves.
Seriously, people.
On June 8th Golden Tate broke into the Top Pot Donuts establishment below his Seattle area apartment, reportedly en route to stealing some allegedly delicious maple bars. Nothing of great value was stolen, but the night baker received the fright of her life.
Now, I can take a joke as well as anyone, and one look at my profile picture will let readers know my take on donuts, but this is no joke.
This one minor technicality from breaking and entering.
Period.
Please, Seahawks fans, stop pretending it isn't.
Pete Carroll laughed off the incident in a tweet, saying: "A great maple bar is a great maple bar, right golden?? They don't come along everyday...a classic TopPot temptation."
Um...
What?
Way to go coach, you have effectively hamstrung yourself (quite publicly) when it comes to any future discipline of a similar nature.
Then again, ...

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