Golden "Showtime" Tate

Earlier this month "Showtime" Tate showed me something that I want to reveal to the world... Athletes are people like you and me!.. besides being extremely talented and making a living out of playing sports. To open up the topic of this story I will quote Mike Tyson from everybody's favorite comedy, 'The Hangover', "We all do dumb s#!t when we're f^*ked up..." And that's exactly what this former Notre Dame football star did. No, he didn't steal a tiger, but at 3am, Tate stole a ladies' keys from Top Pot Donut Shop in Seattle then proceeded to break in and steal their renowned maple bars.

The good ole' boy from South Bend was described as "drunk and being retarded". Haha YES! All too often do we only get to see our boys in uniform (no, not the military) on their best behavior on-field and during press conferences. Finally, we get a story about an athlete doing the dumb stuff most people do when they're hammered. Munchies? I've had a few... 20 dollars at Del Taco? A 555 deal from Domino's party of 2? Nutella and Peanut Butter (the best of all)? Hell yes. What Golden Tate displayed was of importance to fans everywhere. We fail to remember that athletes go deeper than up and down the field, they also sometimes drink themselves retarded like you and me. Not that something like breaking and entering should be celebrated, but the fact that Golden "Showtime" Tate was quoted after the incident saying "the smell of the maple bars was 'irresistible'" should be! Who releases that statement to the police besides the drunkest, hungriest of human beings? Showtime's no superman, he's super drunk and just super-"human".

After hearing the story and finally finding some different sort of entertainment in the regular sports news, the story went bitter. Conversation of punishments, public apologies, and questions of how to handle this improper action was all this great story turned into. It is as if we have turned professional sports into 24/7 professionalism. Contract agreements aside, when athletes are not in their uni's, they should be people like you and me, celebrating the gift of life and craving donuts at 3am. We cannot turn our athletes into machines and we will never be able to, so why do we treat them that way?

Golden apologized for his actions and Pete Caroll shared his thoughts about the incident saying, "well, no I am not disappointed in the guy being at a donut shop when they got maple bars like Top Pot does, however under the circumstances I think they were closed or something like that'... 'Though I do understand the lure of the maple bars." There's good old Petey doing what he does. He is a players best friend, he will protect you in the media whether you're drunk and stealing maple bars or even perhaps accepting large amounts of money for compensation of later engagements with a sports agency (i.e Reggie Bush). What the rookie receiver from the Seattle Seahawks did is not serious. I mean, put it in perspective. University of Miami Hurricanes steal cars, our University of Notre Dame Golden Domer stole maple bars. So, to Golden Tate, I thank you again for bringing joyous entertainment to my life and thank you for being super-human.