Moon still has Seahawks job

AP Sports Writer

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) - Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon said clinical evaluations have shown he does not have a problem with alcohol following two arrests for drunken driving.

He is also thankful the Seahawks are allowing him to remain their radio color commentator for game broadcasts.

"I am deeply sorry. I really look at myself as a person who has high integrity and high character," said the 51-year-old former quarterback who was MVP of the 1978 Rose Bowl for Washington, starred for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League and set records for the Houston Oilers. "To have these errors in judgment is not my character. I'm sorry to put my family, my friends and the Seahawks through this.

Tuesday, Moon pleaded guilty to first-degree negligent driving, a reduced charge from the drunken driving count that followed his Dec. 28 arrest by police in the Seattle suburb of Medina after he refused a field sobriety and breath test.

Moon received a 90-day jail sentence, with 88 of those days suspended. Kirkland Municipal Judge Michael Lambo gave Moon the option of serving five days of home detention rather than jail time.

Moon said Thursday he will serve the detention under electronic monitoring in August. He said he will still be able to come to Seahawks headquarters to work during those five days, "but I can't go out to dinner or to the mall or anything like that."

Moon pleaded guilty in August 2007 to first-degree negligent driving and was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, a $350 fine and drug and alcohol awareness classes.

"It's been tough, one of the toughest things I've ever had to go through," he said. "But I have no one to blame but myself for that."

When asked if team executives have given him an ultimatum that one more incident would cost him his job, Moon said: "Pretty much, the writing is on that wall that it's going to be that way. It's kind of like, three strikes and you're out."

Moon, a nine-time Pro Bowl passer who also played for the Minnesota Vikings, the Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs through 2000, said he voluntarily underwent a drug and alcohol assessment plus an outpatient treatment program during the last two months. A Kirkland Municipal Court docket for his case listed "defendant complied with alcohol assessment."

Moon said before these incidents, he used to see people on the street and he could tell they were thinking, "Is that Warren Moon?"

"Now, you don't know what they are thinking," he said. "That uncertainty bothers me."