Steelers to trade Roethlisberger?

[cmac2012]

That's the report anyway:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=dw-roethlisberger042110

I saw former Steeler Terry Bradshaw on one of the talk shows, Leno I think, and he wasn't kind to the guy. Said they hadn't been on good terms since he urged him to quit riding motorcycles. And then BR had the accident and apparently avoided Bradshaw. He ended by saying Roethlisberger doesn't like him and he's learning to not like Roethlisberger.

[t walgamuth]

It sounds to me like they feel that he will do something that will make him unable to perform for them at all. Judging by his actions off the field that seems like a pretty good bet.

So they will trade him away and hope to get someone reliable off the field as well as on.

[jt20]

Originally Posted by t walgamuth

It sounds to me like they feel that he will do something that will make him unable to perform for them at all. Judging by his actions off the field that seems like a pretty good bet.

So they will trade him away and hope to get someone reliable off the field as well as on.

I wasn't aware of this...

what a disgusting gorilla this guy is.

[MS Fowler]

Ben just makes it that much easier for Ravens fans to hate Pittsburgh. Not that we need any more reason.
However, to be honest, I have respect for the organization, and the Owners. But if that ever gets out, many Ravens fans would consider me a traitor.

[The Clk Man]

I think that Roethlisberger ate a tunaberger that he couldn't handle.

[jt20]

Originally Posted by The Clk Man

I think that Roethlisberger ate a tunaberger that he couldn't handle.

if, by some cryptic innuendo, you mean he raped a drunk chic and now its coming back up....

then I would have to agree to agree with you.

[The Clk Man]

Originally Posted by jt20

if, by some cryptic innuendo, you mean he raped a drunk chic and now its coming back up....

then I would have to agree to agree with you.

So we are in agreement then?

[jt20]

as sure as hefeweizen isn't a clever broonhilda

[The Clk Man]

Originally Posted by jt20

as sure as hefeweizen isn't a clever broonhilda

broonhilda or broomhilda, there is a difference ya know.

[cmac2012]

Amazing the good breaks some guys get, by combination of skill, hard work, good genes and good fortune only to piss it away on some booo****.

[dannym]

I'm sure there is more out there that we don't know about.
Why else would they want to get rid of francise player?

[Mike D]

Originally Posted by dannym

I'm sure there is more out there that we don't know about.
Why else would they want to get rid of francise player?

'Cause he lost TWICE to the Bengals last year! I don't remember the last "Squealers" quarterback who ever did that. Bad ju-ju, man.

[tonkovich]

Originally Posted by dannym

I'm sure there is more out there that we don't know about.
Why else would they want to get rid of francise player?

he's facing a civil suit regarding another alleged rape a few years ago. seems to be a pattern here. alcohol and aggression towards women. he comes across as an arrogant bully and a misogynist. makes michael vick look somewhat respectable in comparison.

[dynalow]

Originally Posted by dannym

I'm sure there is more out there that we don't know about.
Why else would they want to get rid of francise player?

First Class Dirtbag....
Question: Got daughters?

D.A. Fred Bright Transcript plus the Post-Statement Interview

The facts as they appear from our investigation are essentially these: On the evening of Thursday, March 4, and going into after midnight on Friday, March 5, Ben Roethlisberger was bar-hopping with his bodyguards and friends here in Milledgeville, Georgia, and attracting a crowd wherever he went. And his victim was bar-hopping with her sorority sisters. Both parties had been drinking alcohol prior to meeting each other. They did not know each other before this evening, but did meet at different bars throughout the night. They participated in conversations, some of a sexual nature. After midnight, Mr. Roethlisberger and his entourage were at the Capital City Club and the manager let them use the V.I.P. area. The victim went with her sorority sisters to the nightclub later. Mr. Roethlisberger invited them into the V.I.P. area where he provided shots of alcohol for them. Everyone agrees that the victim was highly intoxicated due to consuming alcohol. One of the bodyguards guided the victim down a back hallway. Mr. Roethlisberger followed her down the hallway into a small bathroom. The issue is what happened in that small, less than five-foot-wide, single-commode bathroom, between Mr. Roethlisberger and the victim. Significant questions about what occurred persist. A report was made to law enforcement immediately. Initial interviews were conducted. The victim was driven by a friend to the Oconee Regional Medical Center, the local hospital in Milledgeville. An emergency-room doctor and two nurses examined her. Noted in their report was a superficial laceration and bruising and slight bleeding in the genital area. Everything else in the medical examination was normal. The doctor stated that he could not say these were or were not from any kind of trauma or sexual assault. A standard rape evidence kit was collected. The doctor found no evidence of semen or discharge. The swabbings from the rape-evidence kit were tested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Atlanta, Georgia, and the initial testing found human male DNA present. Additional extensive testing was done, but because the sample was so minute it would not yield a profile. The crime lab advised that extracting DNA from Mr. Roethlisberger at this point was futile due to the fact that no profile was available from the minute male DNA sample submitted in the rape-evidence kit. Hence, that is when Mr. Roethlisberger’s attorney was informed that no buccal-swab samples for DNA would be needed from his client anymore.




"Q: What did he say in his statement?

A: I’ll answer what did she say and what did he say, OK? Let’s start first with what did she say, and I’m not going to go into all of the salacious details. There’s been a spectrum of her statements. Her immediate outcry, it was her sorority sisters. When she left the bathroom, she indicated to her sorority sisters, who were there, that she wanted to go home, and quite candidly it was her sorority sisters who were concerned and said, no, she didn’t need to be back there with Ben because she was too drunk to be back there with Ben. It was her sisters’ idea to go report this to the police. So it was immediately reported to the police. There are a lot of Milledgeville police working the streets where the bars are. This is a college town. And when they took her to the first officer, he said it was mostly the sorority sisters who were talking and there was a lot of confusion, and he could tell they were trying to report something; it sounded like sexual assault. And the first words out of his lips, the police officer’s, he said, ‘Did he rape you?’ And her response was, ‘No.’ Next, the first officer said, ‘Did they have sex?’ And she said, ‘Well, I’m not sure.’ And then – and I’m giving you the spectrum here – we go to her first statement in her own handwriting, and I think it’s still pretty clear she was still intoxicated at that point; this was down at the Milledgeville police station. And she said in her own handwriting, ‘I don’t know if this is a good idea. He said It’s OK. He had sex with me.’ Then the progression will go to her second statement, in her own handwriting, and this is probably 12, 13 hours later, again at the Milledgeville police department. She’s sober by now and coherent, and in her own words she said, and this is in her handwriting, ‘I told him it wasn’t OK. No. We don’t need to do this. And I proceeded to get up and try to leave. I went to the first door I saw, which happened to be a bathroom. He followed me into the bathroom and shut the door behind him. I still said no. This is not OK. And he then had sex with me. He said it was OK.’ And I’ll give you one more at the hospital: The doctors and nurses have in quotes, and this will be coming from the victim, ‘A boy kind of raped me.’ I don’t really want to go any further than that, but I’m trying to give a fair spectrum of the progression from the initial statement."


http://nationalsportsreview.com/sports/us/d-wil/2010/04/12/da-fred-bright-transcript-plus-the-post-statement-interview/

[suginami]

I saw a clip on what the fans reaction was yesterday during the draft.

When it was Pittsburg's turn to announce their pick, the fans yelled, "She said no" over and over again. perfect.