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Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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The headline at the top of Drudge about his injuries says:

Lost most of his teeth, fractured his left sinus cavity bone, suffered a nine-inch laceration to the back of his head and a broken jaw...
 
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Bucklion said:
The headline at the top of Drudge about his injuries says:

Lost most of his teeth, fractured his left sinus cavity bone, suffered a nine-inch laceration to the back of his head and a broken jaw...
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:slappy:

He deserves them all. I love it when a fucking dumbass poo-poos the idea of wearing a helmet and then gets serious facial injuries while on the bike.

Have fun drinking slurpees dumbass.
 
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They could think about moving Randell El under center. He has a decent arm, can run the option and is tough as nails, after all, he spent four years being the Big 10 punching bag and no one knocked him out.
 
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elliemae said:
Let's not be IGNORANT here! Nobody deserves to be hurt!:( Whether he made the wrong choice in helmets,which he did! The woman cut left in front of him after her green arrow was gone! So she might be at fault!
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So cocaine addicts don't deserve to get "hurt" when they snort?

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Life is dangerous enough without somebody doing stupid things (or not doing smart things) to try to make it worse.

I'll feel bad for him if his knees get hurt. But as for his face:

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tibor75 said:
So cocaine addicts don't deserve to get "hurt" when they snort?

:roll1:

Life is dangerous enough without somebody doing stupid things (or not doing smart things) to try to make it worse.

I'll feel bad for him if his knees get hurt. But as for his face:

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I'm not saying that,in that manner I'm speaking of incidents like this & others that are easily controlled or remedied but still happen! Ummm... no never mind I won't even go there tibby!:biggrin:
We shall leave cocaine out of it! This is a 180 on that habit!:topic: :crazy:
 
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cincibuck said:
They could think about moving Randell El under center. He has a decent arm, can run the option and is tough as nails, after all, he spent four years being the Big 10 punching bag and no one knocked him out.
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Randle-El is now a Redskin.
...as soon as I heard Roethlisberger's injuries were not life threatening, my reaction was-bet you'd trade your ring for the ability to eat solid food for the next 4 months....if you don't wear a helmet riding a motorcycle, you are a grade A moron.....
 
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I still just can't believe how many people who use their bodies to make a living (and in his case, a whole crapload of money) do really stupid things like this. Have to figure that even if he recovers fully, this will prevent him from regulating his food and caloric intake for several months, and will impact his career for probably more than that.

Defies logic.
 
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Just one year ago:

"Ben, you're starting to make me think you're not that smart," said Bradshaw, looking directly into a camera and pointing his index finger. "Did you not see what that idiot in Cleveland did? You're cool enough without it (the bike). Wait until you're 33, 34. Ride the sucker all you want then."

As the interview ended, Bradshaw walked off, muttering, "I can't believe he's riding that motorcycle. Stupidest thing I ever heard of."

Bradshaw speaks from experience. As a young quarterback, he was told by team owner Dan Rooney to keep his Corvette off the road and in the garage -- and he says he obeyed.

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Asked why he doesn't wear a helmet -- something he wouldn't think about doing on a football field -- Roethlisberger pointed out Pennsylvania's 35-year-old state law requiring helmets to be worn was amended two years ago.

"Obviously Pennsylvania doesn't think people need to (wear a helmet)," he said. "There's a law you've got to wear it in football."
 
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You can't even get on pittsburghlive.com.


Going 'Hog' Wild: Pittsburgh Papers Cover Roethlisberger Motorcycle Accident

By Joe Strupp

Published: June 12, 2006 3:05 PM ET

NEW YORK Pittsburgh's two daily papers are swarming over today's story that Super Bowl champion quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident -- while not wearing a helmet.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette devoting at least 10 reporters to the story. That paper's Web site is reportedly grabbing seven times the usual traffic for most Mondays.

Mary Leonard, Post-Gazette deputy managing editor/web, said the Web site is busier than it was the day after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XL last February.

Robert Fryer, managing editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, would not comment on rumors that his paper's Web site had been severely slowed or crashed due to the volume of hits. He said four reporters from his staff were on the story, and predicted it would lead Tuesday morning's paper.

"It will be the front page, but we are waiting to see what happens," Fryer said. "It sounds like he wasn't hurt real bad. It is a big deal, but it is not the end of the world."

Both newspapers' Web sites were updating the story continuously from the first reports before noon. The accident, in which Roethlisberger collided with a car, reportedly occurred around 11:15 a.m. The Steelers' star was not wearing a helmet, according to the papers' reports.

Roethlisberger had come under fire during the past year for riding a motorcycle without a helmet, especially after Cleveland Browns' tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. hurt his knee during a motorcycle accident in May 2005. The Post-Gazette linked to a story about that.

But since winning the Super Bowl in February against the Seattle Seahawks, Roethlisberger had been the toast of the town, as well as the NFL, even appearing at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April as the guest of CNN.

"We have a lot of space set aside in print for this," said Susan Smith, Post-Gazette managing editor. "We are also gearing up to have some extra things on the Web." She said a Web chat with sports editor Jerry Micco was set for 4 p.m., while a slide show of Roethlisberger's career was being posted as well.

Smith said Post-Gazette reporters working the story included four sportswriters, one business writer, three local news reporters, and two entertainment writers. "We will determine by 4:30 or 5 p.m. what the news is," she said.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651860
 
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He's quoted last year as saying "It's (motorcycles) not as much of a risk as people make it out to be" and "You're just more free without a helmet on"

Wonder if he wishes he had either of those back.
 
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