I Want Top Pot Maple Bars

Yahoo Sports - As first reported by TMZ.com, Tate was given a trespass warning by police in Bellevue, Washington (a suburb of Seattle) when the owner of the Top Pot donut shop below the apartment complex in which Tate lives noticed that there were intruders in his place of business at 3:00 last Saturday morning. The Seattle Times reports that Tate and a friend got in via a common door that was left open.

Tate said that the idea was to go into the shop to grab a few maple bars, which are apparently addictive to the extreme. "They're irresistible," Tate told the media after his pastry caper was made public. "It was kind of a foolish mistake that won't happen again. But if you ever want some maple bars, that's the place to go.

"A buddy made the mistake of going in, grabbing a couple. He came out, we ate them. There's nothing much to the story other than that. I'm very apologetic to it. This is the wrong type of media I want to bring to this organization. I apologized to the team, the coaches and even Top Pot. As of now, I think that's the end of it."

Can you blame Golden Tate? If you can't blame him for being named Golden, and you can't blame him for being drafted by the Seahawks, then you most certainly can't blame him for grabbing a couple maple bars from Top Pot. Nobody got hurt, I'm sure Tate will be a long time customer so what exactly is the big deal? They sound delicious, Top Pot is getting all kinds of publicity now, it's like they brainwashed the Seahawks for the sole purpose of publicity. Later in that article the Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll gave a ringing endorsement to the "allure" of Top Pot.

"I'm not disappointed in the guy being at a donut shop when they've got maple bars like Top Pot has," the coach said. "However, under the circumstances ... I think they were closed, or something like that, or they were trying to close. So that's definitely wrong, and we've talked about it and addressed it. And he's most remorseful. But I do understand the allure of the maple bars."

Smells like a tasty publicity stunt to me.