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Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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ORD_Buckeye;1691059; said:
Honestly, the league should just cut this scumbag loose for good. I'm sure they'd do it if he were a backup cornerback.
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Maybe there's a glimmer of hope...

The one quote from that Steeler press conference that I found intriguing was that they would determine their disciplinary action
"after the draft"--be reeeelly interestin' if you start seeing the Steelers trading up for an early pick, say a promising young QB.
 
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I really feel for guys like Bradford and McCoy and I really hope that they get picked by a team that wants them and that they can buy into, because those two guys suffered all kinds of senior (junior) heartbreak after having such outstanding collegiate careers...

...not to mention they seem to be high class guys all around

With that being said, I would hate for the Steelers to draft either of them. I don't follow the NFL much, but I just don't see that being a fit...on or off the field...
 
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localyokel;1691703; said:
Maybe there's a glimmer of hope...

The one quote from that Steeler press conference that I found intriguing was that they would determine their disciplinary action
"after the draft"--be reeeelly interestin' if you start seeing the Steelers trading up for an early pick, say a promising young QB.
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Ben Rapemysister has a $100 million contract and 2 SB rings. The Steelers holier-than-thou assertions aside, they aren't getting rid of him.

My guess is a 2 game suspension.
 
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Sources: Big Ben suspension coming by Tuesday - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to suspend Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger(notes) on Monday or Tuesday as a result of the recent sexual assault investigation in Milledgeville, Ga., multiple sources have indicated to Yahoo! Sports.

Though the Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney announced last Monday that Roethlisberger wouldn’t be charged in the case and no player has ever been suspended under the league’s personal conduct policy without being at least charged with a crime, sources close to the quarterback said he is unlikely to fight the punishment.

Roethlisberger, who apologized following last week’s announcement for the negative attention the incident garnered, would prefer to put the matter to rest as quickly as possible, three sources close to him said.

“Ben understands where this is going and he knows there’s punishment he’ll have to take,” one of the aforementioned sources close to Roethlisberger said. “He knows how much this hurt the team and the league. He wants to make this right.”

While NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said he has been given no timetable for a decision, the question remains whether Goodell will keep the suspension to one or two games or make it four games or longer. It is also unknown whether the Steelers will levy an additional penalty upon Roethlisberger or if a punishment will be factored into the league’s suspension. Over the weekend, two league sources said Goodell was growing angrier by the day as more information from the investigation became public.

The investigation has included statements from witnesses in the case that a bodyguard in Roethlisberger’s entourage blocked other people from going to find Roethlisberger and the woman in a bathroom in the bar where the incident took place.

While the investigation details damaging evidence against the accuser as well and includes a statement by the woman that she didn’t want to press charges against Roethlisberger, it is clear that Roethlisberger is losing in the court of public opinion.

“After you read the file and you listen to the player, the only conclusion you can come to is that what he did is unbelievably stupid,” one of the league sources said. “How could he have really thought this was a good idea?”

This is the second straight offseason in which Roethlisberger has faced sexual misconduct allegations. A Nevada casino worker last July accused Roethlisberger of raping her in 2008. No criminal charges were filed in that case and the civil suit, which includes counter damages, is still ongoing.

The aftermath of the Roethlisberger investigation stands to dampen an eventful week for the NFL. The league will announce the 2010 NFL schedule on Tuesday and the 75th draft begins in prime time on Thursday.
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A few more details show up in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, including the news-to-me revelation that eight hours after the accusation was made to police, the janitor at the club was allowed to enter the bathroom & use everything short of a flame-thrower to clean it up.

Also of interest is the section on now-former police sergent & shift-supervisor Jerry Blath, to whom the women were referred to make their report:

"It was Mr. Blash who had escorted Mr. Roethlisberger and his bar-hopping group of friends to Capital City. It was Mr. Blash who posed for a photograph with the quarterback early in the evening. And it was Mr. Blash who investigators say admitted in interviews that while in Capital City he said something like, "This bitch is drunk off her ass accusing Ben of assaulting her."
Now that's the kind of unbiased sensitivity I like to see in an officer of the law.

According to special agent Tom Davis of the GBI, Blash's account of his interviews are the only version where it's claimed the accuser wasn't sure or denied she had been raped.

"All other accounts -- the accuser's two written statements and her friends' interviews with investigators -- consistently state that the woman claimed Mr. Roethlisberger forced sex on her." ​

Well, gosh golly gee, I can't imagine why the girl & her family would feel any reluctance to have further dealings with the cops there.

Read more: Roethlisberger inquiry bumpy

BTW, without digging through all BP poster's profiles, I fell pretty secure in my impression that most of us saw "twenty" drop below the horizon in our rear-view mirrors several miles back down the road. My question is: how many of us, at that age, had a firm handle on how susceptible we were to alcohol? (I know I've never wanted to see vodka or caviar again :sick1: since a disastrous experiment--luckily occurring in the safety of my own room.) Yet, one of the favorite responses from the PigBen lovers is that he isn't accountable for his conduct becasue the 20-year-old was intoxicated. Apparently, when you're drunk you're unrapeable. It appears that the mere fact of being intoxicated so strips the woman of any shred of respectability that nothing that happened to her after that matters. drunk=disposable. And here I'd had the impression that the more impaired a woman was, the greater the responsibilty the man with her had to regulate his conduct. Guess I'm just a hopeless idealist.
 
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