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710 ESPN Seattle host and former teammate Brock Huard was just as surprised to hear Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens planned to get married as the rest of us. (Twitter - @HopeSolo, posted Oct. 28, 2012)

Brock Huard hopeful for former teammate Jerramy Stevens

BY Stephanie Klein  on November 14, 2012 @ 10:27 am (Updated: 4:06 pm - 11/14/12 )

Olympic soccer star Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens tied the knot Tuesday evening after the former Husky and Seahawk was arrested for domestic assault. His bride was named a victim in the police report.

710 ESPN Seattle host and former teammate Brock Huard was just as surprised to hear the pair planned to get married as the rest of us.

Huard said he actually ran into Stevens last week at Sea-Tac Airport on his way home from the East Coast. They got to chatting about life and what Stevens has been up to.

"It's been a couple years since he played. He still, like a lot of pro-athletes, spent nine years in the league and still doesn't know what he's going to do next, but he's in town to get married."

Stevens told Huard they weren't going to go on a honeymoon because his fiance would be on tour, a soccer tour. She is Hope Solo.

Huard said he didn't spill the beans at work because there's 'a code' amongst teammates. He may have dug deeper had he not been delirious from traveling all day.

While critics wonder why someone like Solo would choose to spend the rest of her life with someone like Stevens, who has a long history of arrests, Huard said he was a great guy on the field.

"If you lined up 100 of his former teammates, as far as how he took care of business on the field, how he handled himself in the huddle, how much he cared about winning, how much he cared about the other teammates...as a football player, he was a tremendous guy."

Former Seahawks DT Craig Terrill echoed the same thoughts on the Dori Monson Show. "He was stoic, good teammate, he'd come out and play football, joke around, laugh in the locker room, but then you'd hear about these problems that would come up off the field and in his private life."

Huard said he's aware Stevens has many demons in his personal life, but he's not alone.

"I could go through the list of guys that are searching to try to figure out what (they're) going to do next."

Huard said he feels horrible about the news of Stevens' arrest early Monday morning, but he's hopeful the newlywed will find his way.

"I hope it's all upwards from here," said Terrill, doesn't know about Solo, but said it seems like people with issues gravitate toward each other. "I hope they pull it together."

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Stephanie Klein, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Stephanie joined the MyNorthwest.com team in February 2008. She has built the site into a two-time National Edward R. Murrow Award winner (Best Radio Website 2010, 2012).
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  • hpygolkyone wrote...
    I Think Mr. Huard Probably Said It Best...........
    November 14, 2012 10:51 am
    Quote: "If you lined up 100 of his former teammates, as far as how he took care of business on the field, how he handled himself in the huddle, how much he cared about winning, how much he cared about the other teammates...as a football player, he was a tremendous guy."

    Therein lies the problem.......he isn't playing football anymore...........and.....has LOTS AND LOTS of free time to get into trouble.

    I wish everyone well who decides to get married, but usually the "throwing of the hands" comes many years after the ceremony, not before.

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  • awbitf wrote...
    Steven's doesn't know what he's going to do next?
    November 14, 2012 10:54 am
    Too bad he can't use that UW degree for anything.

    What a crock, Brock. Demons is an understatement. Assault, Rape, hit and run, multiple DUIs and battery... that's not demons, that's just a bad egg.

    Next you're going to say that registered sex offenders are really just trying to figure things out.

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  • Dizzle wrote...
    Love is dumb
    November 14, 2012 11:22 am
    And so are these two.
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  • wsshirling wrote...
    how the mighty have fallen...
    November 14, 2012 11:28 am
    Gotta love watching the former heart throb of soccer flash gang signs with the other model citizen in that photo. I guess their two month courtship was all that was needed to seal the deal for both of them. It's true love!
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  • southi5 wrote...
    the "gang sign"
    November 14, 2012 3:58 pm
    is actually a W for Washington, as in the Huskies, where they both played sports......maybe you've heard of them.
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  • marcelsees wrote...
    Hope is Living ...
    November 14, 2012 12:22 pm
    ... on the edge!
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  • dori monson fan wrote...
    hope just received the second most expensive beat down of all time
    November 14, 2012 12:55 pm
    with tiger still holding onto the #1 spot. goodbye sponsors!
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  • Newton wrote...
    Its more then booze talking.
    November 14, 2012 1:56 pm
    Its Yager Talking demons.
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  • southi5 wrote...
    She brought up Superbowl XL
    November 14, 2012 3:19 pm
    and how he dropped a TD and let Joey Porter own him, Hope just needs to wear black and gold and he'll cower all day long.
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  • Eric77 wrote...
    Demons.....
    November 14, 2012 6:13 pm
    No--it's called being a psychopath. Ted Bundy was a "nice" guy too. If you compartmentalize your life and are constantly told the rules don't apply to you because you can play football then there is no real need to change. He's never faced any serious consequences for his actions and it seems that this trend is continuing with enablers like Hope. He won't ever find a way out because he doesn't want to. We'll hear about him again inside 6 months. I give the marriage about a year maybe two.
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  • Hawkin wrote...
    Brock
    November 14, 2012 7:49 pm
    I thought this was the time when everyone is supposed to throw stones and here you are being humane. What about the "its 2012" cliche? I'm confused now. Gotta go the herd is leaving me.
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  • jstumbo wrote...
    he does not need humane...
    November 15, 2012 5:45 am
    How many times do his actions need to be excused? A scumbag is a scumbag. What he needs is a jail cell for a few years. But I fear that would probsaly just make him worse. I am allowed to throw stones because I have never been arrested for domestic violence, rape, hit and run, drugs, assault, or anything else.
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  • Hawkin wrote...
    Humane
    November 15, 2012 8:45 am
    was not the best word choice, it sounds accepting. Does something need to be done? Most likely.
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