Comments on: Big Ben Accused of Sexual Assault. Again.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:01:19 +0000

The law in Georgia states that people under 21 years old are legally allowed to be in bars that serve alcohol. They are just given a wrist band that identifies them as underage and not permitted to drink. But they are fully entitled to be there to socialize, listen to music, hang out, or whatever.

By: trkod

trkod — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:53:34 +0000

The drinking age in Georgia is 21 what is a 20 yr. old
doing there anyway?

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:25:10 +0000

It’s not that hard to google from your phone nowadays. That, coupled with the fact that Big Ben is recognizable due to fact that he is an NFL starting quarterback (and the only ones who people probably wouldn’t be able to recognize would probably be the guys for San Fran, St. Louis, and now Matt Moore for Carolina) means she could have easily identified him upon his entry into the bar, googled his stats, and then cooked something up in her mind, if she wasn’t too drunk. By the way, has there been any reports of her BAC or anything?

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:41:41 +0000

Anthony, yes, you’re right. BRILLIANT OBSERVATION. I’m sure this 20 year old college student who had no idea Ben Roethlisberger was in town let alone bar hopping that night googled his NFL.com entry before going out that night because she expected to meet him, flirt with him, then have sex with him in the bathroom and she wanted to make sure she had his EXACT weight for the police.

Please, people, THINK before you post nonsense.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:40:01 +0000

KDog, I threw those links up with about thirty seconds of research. I’ve heard the fact Ben’s not popular with his teammates from dozens of sources, from local radio talk shows (Stan & Guy, Mark Madden, it was just mentioned Monday which you can listen to here http://a.espnradio.com/stations/pittsburgh/crow/Crow100308.mp3) to the local papers to that ESPN piece I linked (and that wasn’t “the past.” They said he was unlikable up until about 2008. Everything is always great when you’re winning. As soon as things went south this year, the team turned on him in terms of Hines saying “50% of the locker room questioned his heart” and James Harrison saying “some of the guys on this team were out for themselves this year”–there’s your CURRENT examples).

Of course you “haven’t heard” that Ben is unpopular with his teammates. When you live in Columbus, St. Louis, or Brooklyn, I have no doubt that you are going to be unaware of a lot things those of us here in Pittsburgh find out about our team.

I’m sorry I don’t keep an extensive collection of links to things everybody who closely follows the Steelers already knows to be true so I can cite them on demand. Perhaps I should also keep a collection of youtube clips as proof for the next time I say Ryan Clark is a poor tackler or Willie Parker has lost a step. And I’m sorry if you read things into my tone which I didn’t intend but that’s your problem, not mine. Believe what you wish. Real fans know the truth.

And yes, people do change from age 23 to age 28. Evidently in Ben’s case, he went from being an immature prick despised by his teammates at 23 to being a sexual predator at age 28. What progress!