At some point in the past few years, former Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens has become known as Mr. Hope Solo. Stevens is now reminding everyone that he made a name for himself long before he got married.
According to TMZ, Stevens has formally been charged with DUI arising from an incident in which he was driving the Team USA soccer van with a blood-alcohol content “above 0.15" percent. The legal limit is 0.08 percent.
The arrest happened in January. Stevens and Solo reportedly used the “Do you know who we are?” routine, which usually doesn’t work.
Stevens was last arrested (at last count) in 2012, for probation violation. That came not long after he was arrested (but not charged) in a domestic violence incident involving Solo, only days before he became Mr. Hope Solo.
Stevens was arrested for felony battery in March 2011, and for felony marijuana possession with intent to sell during the 2010 football season, while he was a member of the Tampa Bay roster.
The more distant past for Stevens multiple DUI charges after coming to the NFL to rape allegations and multiple claim of hit-and-run (once he allegedly ran his truck into a retirement home and fled the scene) while at the University of Washington and other various claims and predicaments dating back to high school, where the incidents included felony assault and kicking a football teammate in the testicles and threatening referees in a basketball game after being ejected for being too aggressive. Stevens also once was accused of being a horrible neighbor at a Seattle condo, where “neighbors complained of fireworks set off from his deck, of vomit raining down from above, of loud parties deep into the night” and found used condoms.
The January DUI triggered a 30-day suspension for Solo from the U.S. Women’s National Team. That came not long after assault charges against Solo involving family members were dismissed because witnesses for the prosecution refused to testify. The underlying incident allegedly included Solo telling her nephew that he is “too fat and overweight and crazy to ever be an athlete.”
Their mutual history of off-field entanglement raises an obvious question. Why haven’t Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens gotten a reality show?