Ben Roethlisberger Accused of Sexual Assault

[Jamie_B]

[quote name='Jeb' date='05 March 2010 - 06:40 PM' timestamp='1267832409' post='867514']
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
he was looking for a "good time", for real
he was in a bind for a nice behind
and he was looking to cop a feel.
When he came upon a woman all playing it hot
he rubbed up on her
and told her "girl let me tell you what"

I bet you didn't know it
but I'm a player too
and if you care to step in this bathroom
I'll make a date with you.

Now you play hard to get good girl
but give the devil his due
I bet a lawsuit of gold against your soul
cause I think I'm better than you.

The girl said my name is Tiffany
and it might be a sin
but I'll take your bet
and you're gonna regret
cause I'm the best there's ever been.

[chorus]
Tiffany fight off his advances and fiddle around hard
Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards
And if you win you get this shiny lawsuit made of gold
But if you lose the media gets your soul.

[fiddle solo]

....

http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/05/ben-roethlisberger-devil-t-shirt-photo-pictures-accused-sexual-assault/

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Jeb this may be the best post you've ever made here.

[8675309]

Smoke meet Fire! 2 times in less than a year? C'mon, he's a scumbag!

[Cricket]

[quote name='8675309' date='05 March 2010 - 11:02 PM' timestamp='1267848145' post='867651']
Smoke meet Fire! 2 times in less than a year? C'mon, he's a scumbag!
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...technically, it's been more than a year...but yeah, i also believe that there is fire.

I read most of the detailed account of what reportedly happened in 2008...and did not come away thinking that there was any way that she made up the story to extort money.


Guilty or innocent, I hope that justice is served.

[JC]

No means no, Ben.

What a scumbag. And everyone around the league gives us shit..while Steeler players are beating and raping women. Why are they not catching flak?

[ColorChanginClique]

Goodell probably orders a mandate that Ben gets a pay raise after this

After he lectures Mike and Marvin about the "character" of our players

1 could be an accident, but 2.....smells like a trend is a building....

[AmishBengalFan]

[quote name='JC' date='05 March 2010 - 11:18 PM' timestamp='1267849094' post='867653']
No means no.[/quote]He's been a great role model for my son. If Roethlisberger does something, do the opposite.

- Ride a bike without a helmet. CHECK
- Press on when a woman says 'no'. CHECK
- Make up injuries rather than manning-up for poor performance. CHECK

[|ArmyBengal|]

and this just in from the Commish's office: "In light of the recent and unfortunate accusations against the leagues premier guy, the [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2][i]Commissioner[/i] [/size][/font]has extended O'dell Thurman's suspension to now include the Olympics, the entire state of Pennsylvania and Rogaine.


I was one of those heretics that liked Big Ben in spite of wearing black and gold, admired him from the old Miami Ohio days, but um... son you gots some splainen to do.

[Rumble In the Jungle]

[quote name='AmishBengalFan' date='05 March 2010 - 11:33 PM' timestamp='1267850023' post='867657']
He's been a great role model for my son. If Roethlisberger does something, do the opposite.

- Ride a bike without a helmet. CHECK
- Press on when a woman says 'no'. CHECK
- Make up injuries rather than manning-up for poor performance. CHECK
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[GoCommando]

And ESPN actually reported on it this time. Funny how the "we dont report on personal allegations" or whatever that bullshit was that they dropped last time goes out the window when the guy is not the main attraction on your network's big show premiere the following week. Dbags.

[scharm]

Has anyone ever checked out his back yard or freezer? There could be some "Burbs" type shit going on here.

[Jeb]

[quote name='Jamie_B' date='05 March 2010 - 09:56 PM' timestamp='1267844219' post='867637']


Jeb this may be the best post you've ever made here.
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This picture was taken hours before the assault. I guess he could say, ...the shirt made him do it!

[Xombie]

[quote name='AmishBengalFan' date='05 March 2010 - 11:33 PM' timestamp='1267850023' post='867657']
He's been a great role model for my son. If Roethlisberger does something, do the opposite.

- Ride a bike without a helmet. CHECK
- Press on when a woman says 'no'. CHECK
- Make up injuries rather than manning-up for poor performance. CHECK
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And don't forget blaming good weather for poor performances...

[CTBengalsFan]

For those who think Florio is an unabashed Steeler fan:

It's getting harder to keep an open mind about Roethlisberger

Posted by Mike Florio on March 6, 2010 11:56 AM ET
We realize that the American justice system compels a presumption of innocence. The American public, however, has no such mandate; we can come to our own opinions and conclusions about anything we choose, as ridiculous as those opinions and conclusions may be.

And so on one hand we respect the judicial mindset that prefers setting ten guilty men free to incarcerating a single innocent. On the other hand, we realize that the court of public opinion is close to rendering judgment about Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

At a minimum, he's a damn fool for allowing himself to be placed in a circumstance that could lead to the making of false charges, especially in light of his other pending legal predicament in Nevada. At worst, he has the same "entitlement" mentality that supposedly prompted a certain Tiger's tomcat streak.

The possible difference, of course, is that Eldrick Woods always respected the concept of consent.

It still remains to be seen whether Roethlisberger will be charged in Georgia, where perhaps appropriately he wore a shirt bearing the image of a horned devil (via TMZ). Regardless, the question of whether Roethlisberger is a good guy or a bad guy churns through the national consciousness, and the signs are pointing toward an eventual verdict of "turd."

Consider this quote from Ashley Madden, a Georgia College & State University student who witnessed Roethlisberger act like a jerk when someone tried to take his picture on the night that the lights allegedly went out in Milledgeville. "[H]e snapped at her," Madden told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "saying, 'Don't take a picture unless I'm ready."

We're heard chatter of Roethlisberger directing that same attitude toward persons in various contexts, and people of goodwill and pure heart simply don't treat others that way.

So while he might never face criminal jeopardy for sexual assault or anything else, Roethlisberger's reputation is dangerously close to imploding in every city but one. If he ever loses the people in Pittsburgh who have come to blindly adore him, it might be time to call it quits and settle down in a small town in a state other than Georgia.

[|Bunghole|]

Damn, and I just got home from having an appendectomy too....

Well, at least despite that one commonality, I'm not a rapist!



(I really did just get back from the hospital for said procedure!)

[Rumble In the Jungle]

im so not a raper! lol

[Jeb]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4972229

[B.A.B.]

WTF has been going on in the world of football. I stop paying attention for one week and this homo starts raping chicks, the Ravens sign Boldin, and wtf else happened? I'm scared

[oldschooler]

[b][size="5"]Big Ben Is Officially Brain Dead[/size]

[/b]3/07/2010 1:30 AM ET

By [url="http://www.fanhouse.com/staff/terence-moore/"][color="#027fb5"]Terence Moore[/color][/url]

Excuse me for mixing sports metaphors, but for [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/players/ben-roethlisberger/6770"][color="#027fb5"]Ben Roethlisberger[/color][/url] -- who quickly has evolved into the dumbest quarterback ever to win multiple Super Bowls -- it's three strikes, and you're out.

Yeah, you heard right.

He's definitely dumb, and he most certainly is out.

That's dumb, as in how could Roethlisberger possibly put himself in a position to face another allegation of sexual assault within two years? And that's out, as in, this guy no longer should get the benefit of the doubt regarding anything else that could make his growing list of offseason woes.

If you're running the [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/team/pittsburgh-steelers"][color="#027fb5"]Pittsburgh Steelers[/color][/url], you need to do a couple of things, and you need to do them fast. First, even with the judicial system still trying to determine fact from fiction in Roethlisberger's latest mess, you need to pull the guy aside, tell him to enter a closet at Heinz Field and order him not to leave until further notice. Second, you need to start looking for another quarterback -- you know, just in case, or in an attempt to scare Roethlisberger back into reality.

This is lunacy. I'm talking about what Roethlisberger keeps doing, and how the combination of the [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/team/pittsburgh-steelers"][color="#027fb5"]Steelers[/color][/url], the sporting public and much of the national media keeps dealing with it as just a star player with a frat-boy mentality.

[url="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnfl.fanhouse.com%2F2010%2F03%2F07%2Fbig-ben-is-officially-brain-dead%2F&t=Big%20Ben%20Is%20Officially%20Brain%20Dead%20--%20NFL%20FanHouse&src=sp"]Share[/url] You had that motorcycle silliness four years ago when Roethlisberger ignored his coach's orders by, not only riding the thing, but doing so without a helmet. He broke and bruised several body parts after crashing just shy of death. You also had that woman filing a civil lawsuit in July after she claimed Roethlisberger raped her two years ago at a Lake Tahoe casino and hotel. He refutes the allegations, and no criminal charges were filed, but neither party denies that something happened.

Whatever happened, this much is true: Roethlisberger got lucky, because he got another chance, and he blew it. I mean, there is no way he should be within three punts and a couple of bombs of whatever happened during the early hours of last Friday in The Middle Of Nowhere, Georgia -- otherwise known as Milledgeville, a city of mostly nothing but trouble.

While Milledgeville is the proud home of Georgia College and State University, everything else is bad. The unemployment rate is ridiculous at 14.2 percent, about five points higher than the national average. And for years, it was known as a place that housed some of Georgia's worst criminals in its state pen.

Now you can add this Roethlisberger situation to the city's list of infamy, and the reason begins and ends with ... Roethlisberger.

Yes, these are only allegations.

And, yes, no criminal charges have been filed.

But, no, Roethlisberger isn't innocent until proven guilty in this case, because he is at least guilty of stupidity before the first judge's gavel.

Roethlisberger isn't innocent until proven guilty in this case, because he is at least guilty of stupidity before the first judge's gavel. Here's what we do know about Roethlisberger's latest controversy, and it shows he won't be designing space shuttles any time soon: He left his home in Lake Oconee, Ga., and he eventually met two or three of his friends 30 miles away in Milledgeville. It was sort of a birthday celebration for the recently-turned 28-year-old Roethlisberger, and they went to a sports bar in the city to watch a basketball game. Then they ate dinner -- and then, as often is the case for young men in these situations, they searched for women.

Either that, or the women found them.

No problem there. Well, unless your name is Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger, and you already have a bull's-eye to cover your rather large back.

In addition to those legal issues and that motorcycle accident, Roethlisberger also has been a target for football-related things. Just last season, he suffered a concussion in a game against the [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/team/kansas-city-chiefs"][color="#027fb5"]Kansas City Chiefs[/color][/url], but he practiced all week before announcing that Saturday that he couldn't play the next day against the [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/team/baltimore-ravens"][color="#027fb5"]Baltimore Ravens[/color][/url]. He was ripped by teammate [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/players/hines-ward/4323"][color="#027fb5"]Hines Ward[/color][/url], and that wasn't the first time.

After the 2007 season, Roethlisberger caught the Wrath of Ward when the quarterback said he needed bigger receivers. Ward wasn't amused, and neither was [url="http://nfl.fanhouse.com/players/santonio-holmes/7774"][color="#027fb5"]Santonio Holmes[/color][/url], who joins Ward as a smaller receiver.

There also were all of those Roethlisberger-created questions about his ribs during the week before the Steelers' last Super Bowl victory in 2009. As a result, he slowly has become known as a drama king who nevertheless has a powerful arm.

It's just that he can't think as fast as he can throw.

For instance: No way Roethlisberger was using many brain cells when he decided to finish last Friday night by joining his pals at a Milledgeville nightclub with some of those women that they apparently had just met. Worse, they went into a VIP area, which always is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

For one, these VIP areas give celebrities even more of a sense of entitlement than they already have. For another, with security around to keep folks out, those celebrities are left inside with their guests to do mostly whatever they wish.

The thing is, even if those celebrities chose to spend their VIP time eating popcorn and watching the Disney Channel, they are setting themselves up for somebody in the room claiming more than that happened. Such is especially true if one of those celebrities is, say, an NFL quarterback with two Super Bowl rings. And he is in the midst of an eight-year contract worth $102 million. And he already could be on the hook for giving somebody big bucks for something that he said he didn't do.

And he just doesn't get it.



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[Jamie_B]

ya know as much as i like to rag the guy, the bigger thing here is that there two women (and likely more who havent reported it) that really dont deserve it.

if they prove this to be true, i hope they throw the book at him

[Rick]

[quote name='Jamie_B' date='07 March 2010 - 10:20 AM' timestamp='1267975221' post='867977']
ya know as much as i like to rag the guy, the bigger thing here is that there two women (and likely more who havent reported it) that really dont deserve it.

if they prove this to be true, i hope they throw the book at him
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Roger Goodell, the NFL Commissioner, will not let them throw the book at him! Roger Goodell moves in strange ways.

[|High School Harry|]

[quote name='Jeb' date='07 March 2010 - 01:12 AM' timestamp='1267942335' post='867914']
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4972229
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Kelly Nookie?
Georgia State College and University?
Long narrow bathroom with bars on the windows?
Deputy Dog of the Milliageville PD and Car Wash says he has been in touch with Rophieburger's attorneys? (why?)
Rophie has body guards?

I don't care what, this is funny as hell.

I knew Ben looked familiar from someplace.
Paddle faster, I think I hear banjo music.

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[center](Ben) Sure does have a purty mouth.[/center]

[oldschooler]

From JT's blog . . .




[b][size="5"]C'mon Big Ben[/size][/b]
March 7th, 2010 | [url="http://www.allproblogger.com/category/nfl/"]NFL[/url], [url="http://www.allproblogger.com/category/personal/"]Personal[/url]

When I heard that [b]Steelers[/b][b] QB[/b] [b]Big Ben[/b] was hit with another sexual assault charge, I thought to myself, "What the hell is he doing?" Not because I think he is guilty this time, or the last time for that matter, but he has to be a little more careful when he is out on public. Ben was "charged" with sexual assault last summer and that case has yet to be resolved. Now another woman is saying that Ben assaulted her in a nightclub bathroom in Georgia. Who knows what is true and what isn't. All I know is that if Ben is going to be this public guy, he needs to be smarter. He has to realize that people are going to take advantage of him if he puts himself out there. And it's a shame that people do this. You rarely see an athlete of Ben's stature engage with the public. He should be applauded for that. I've seen him out in Pittsburgh and he acts like one of the guys, just like most of their players. But along with the fame and money will come people looking to get paid. In my opinion, he needs to hire a security guard to go out with him to make sure things like this don't happen. Now if Ben is guilty of sexual assault, he will be punished heavily. Not only for this case, but for the previous case as well. Because even if he didn't commit the crime last summer, people will assume that this is what he does. The only people who know what really happened are Ben and the young lady who filed the charges.





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[Jamie_B]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/03/08/roethlisberger-hires-lawyer-who-defended-ray-lewis/

[quote][size="5"]Roethlisberger hires lawyer who defended Ray Lewis[/size]
Posted by Mike Florio on March 8, 2010 7:28 AM ET

More than a decade ago, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was accused of murder in Georgia. He hired Ed Garland to handle the case. Eventually, the worst of the charges against Lewis were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.

Now, Garland will be asked to help another high-profile NFL player.

Per a league source, Garland has been hired to represent the interests of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the sexual assault investigation that is still unfolding in Milledgeville, Georgia. Roethlisberger has not yet been charged.

Roethlisberger was interviewed at the scene by authorities, and he was then told that he was free to leave. He returned to Pittsburgh on Friday. Authorities have said that he could be interviewed again.

Even though no charges have been filed, there surely has been plenty of work to do for Garland and other lawyers who represent Roethlisberger. They have interviewed all of the key witnesses, and they most likely have been in close communication with authorities.

Their initial goal will be to persuade investigators that charges should not be filed. In matters of this nature, that's the best possible outcome that can be achieved.[/quote]

[|Montana Bengal|]

[url="http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/08/ben-roethlisberger-sexual-assault-accuser-hysterical-cops/"]http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/08/ben-roethlisberger-sexual-assault-accuser-hysterical-cops/[/url]

[quote][size="3"][b]Cops: Big Ben Accuser Was 'Hysterical'[/b][/size]
Posted Mar 8th 2010 9:00AM by TMZ Staff
The woman accusing Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault was "hysterical" when she spoke with cops ... this according to a source at the Milledgeville Police Department.

We're told Ben's accuser arrived at the P.D. with three other women. According to a source at the police department, Ben's accuser was extremely emotional and looked like she had been crying for hours.

Ben's agent, Ryan Tollner, said on Friday, "we are skeptical of motive." Our source begged to differ, saying Ben's accuser did not look like a girl who was making it up.

Roethlisberger has not been charged.[/quote]


Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/08/ben-roethlisberger-sexual-assault-accuser-hysterical-cops/#ixzz0hbnELCWa

[Jeb]

[quote name='Montana Bengal' date='08 March 2010 - 12:48 PM' timestamp='1268070536' post='868348']
[url="http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/08/ben-roethlisberger-sexual-assault-accuser-hysterical-cops/"]http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/08/ben-roethlisberger-sexual-assault-accuser-hysterical-cops/[/url]




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All kidding aside, ...this guy's starting to look like a dirtbag, ...with high priced lawyers.