It is not hard to spot Tani Tupou at Seattle Dragons practices. He is the player who looks the happiest, dancing around and generally having fun.
And why not? The thoughtful and soft-spoken defensive tackle is playing the game he loves, and he was drafted by his hometown team.
“I got to stay home, be local and stay with the family,” said the 6-foot-1, 280-pound Tupou, who played at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett before playing at the University of Washington and briefly with the Seahawks. “A bunch of us on this team got cut from NFL teams and we never knew when our next opportunity would be to play football.