he's a kid, though. he goes out and gets drunk, some drunk comes home with him and blacks out after who knows what happened. is the lesson here not to go out and drink and pick up chicks? that seems a bit limiting since that's one of the huge perks of being a pro athlete. That's one of the huge perks of being alive. Well, there's a difference between getting drunk and drinking until you black out. The former is fun, while the latter can lead to all sorts of...unfortunate things. More often than not, if you black out the most unfortunate thing that happens is your buddies drawing on your face and/or taking embarrassing pictures. When people are simply drunk, especially when they're more drunk than they realize that's when these unfortunate things are likely to occur. I'd be willing to bet that most people who have been in a drunk driving accident, given a DUI were not too drunk to make it home safely in their mind. When a night out ends in a fight leaving someone dead or hospitalized, I'd be willing to bet that they weren't blacked out and were simply drunk. It takes a particularly sick individual to take advantage of a woman when she's blacked out. How are we defining blacking out? In college it meant "not remembering what happened despite being awake/conscious"