Noli nothis permittere te terere

When Ben Roethlisberger dropped to his knees at the conclusion of the AFC Championship game, I teared up a little right along with him.  No man should ever have to experience what he’s gone through this season.  As Super Bowl XLV approaches, be prepared for every one of his sins, a few of them real, most of them imagined, to be rehashed ad nauseum by the horde of reporters covering the big game.  Remember Media Week is more akin to a circus where every garbage picking TMZ reporter or bubble-assed bimbo from TV Azteca is issued a press pass.

Hell, when the NFL offers a goofy blogger like me media credentials, you know anybody can get in.

Remember last week when I told all of you the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl is the NFL’s worst nightmare?  As soon as the first pseudo-journalist questions Big Ben about Milledgville, that nightmare will have become reality.   Don’t believe me?   It’s already started.

New York Daily News fired the first shot with this article condemning ESPN for not rehashing every one of the phony trumped up allegations made by that drunk skank down Georgia.  How dare they skip over every totally unproven detail!  Should we also flash a picture of a mutilated dog every time we speak of Michael Vick?  Or how about the bloody knife Ray Lewis used to stab that guy to death in Atlanta?

Yesterday, the Daily News was trumped in the stupidity department by the venerable New York Times. A hairy arm-pitted disciple of Oprah is evidently upset by the stories of Ben’s redemption.  “How exactly is winning football games making up for mistreating women,” she asks in the same indignant tone she no doubt uses when one of her 37 cats breaks a vase.  She then goes on to suggest, “If Roethlisberger were to take his playoff winnings and use it to make the lives of abused women better,” then he would be redeemed.

Where to start with this inanity.  Truly, it makes me sad that a once great newspaper allows unmitigated hacks to print this drivel within its pages.  First off, honey, nice of you to automatically assume Ben mistreated women without the benefit of pesky little things like facts or evidence.  Perhaps instead of worrying about Ben Roethlisberger, you might pen a column wondering why a twenty year old girl would have such low moral character that she’d get wasted and blow an athlete in a dingy bathroom.  As for the charity suggestion, I guess she missed all the charitable efforts Ben has made on behalf of firemen, policemen, and the John Challis Foundation.

I guess being exceeding kind to a kid with terminal cancer didn’t fit her womyn’s libber agenda.

The caption under the above picture is Latin.  Yes, I speak Latin.  I went to Carnegie Mellon, I’m a nerd.  It roughly translates to “Never let the bastards bring you down.”  Which is a fitting caption, both figurative and literal, for Big Ben’s life.  He never allows opposing players to drag him down without a fight.  And he’s never let the people standing in the way of his dreams take them away.

In 2004, teams fought over Philip Rivers and Eli Manning while Ben was an afterthought.  Ten players were chosen before him, including such luminaries as Robert Gallery and Reggie Williams.  Ben never let the bastards bring him down.

In 2005, people derided him as a game-manager.  He answered them in the playoffs when he out-dueled Peyton Manning among others while guiding the first sixth seed to ever win a Lombardi Trophy.  Ben never let the bastards bring him down.

In 2008, Ben was coming off a sub-par year thanks to the after-effects of a near-fatal motorcycle accident.  People wondered if he was truly a franchise quarterback.  Facing the toughest schedule in 30 years, Ben led six fourth quarter comebacks against a host of playoff caliber teams.   But he saved his best for last when he heroically led the team down the field in the greatest last second game-winning drive in Super Bowl history.  Ben never let the bastards bring him down.

In 2010, Ben was unjustly suspended after baseless accusations by a slutty sorority girl.  Despite no charges being filed, he was vilified in the media and punished by the league.  When he returned to the field, opposing players suckerpunched and cheapshotted him on a regular basis with absolutely no protection from either the officials or the NFL.  In the AFC Championship game, he faced the New York Jets, whose classless fans chanted “She Said No” at the NFL Draft several months earlier despite their inept quarterback having the exact same accusations made against him in college, and defeated them.

When Ben brings home his third championship in six years a little over a week from now, I’m sure he’ll break down yet again.  And he’ll have every reason to.  For at that moment, Ben will have proven once and for all he’ll never let the bastards bring him down.

If there’s no semen, you must believe him.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not face charges stemming from the sexual assault allegations made by a 20 year old coed in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Georgia District Attorney Fred Bright announced today that his office will not be pursuing charges because there is not enough evidence to successfully prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.  Now before anybody gets carried away with their misogynistic rants, please remember this doesn’t mean a crime didn’t occur, it just means they can’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.  Without hard indisputable evidence, it’s very difficult to make a case stick under the strict standards of criminal trial.  Anybody who hears the circumstantial evidence in this case can clearly see that something very very bad and very very wrong happened that night in Georgia.

The important facts are these.   Ben and his posse were out clubbing that night.  So was the victim.  They met up and Ben invited her to the VIP area at the Capital City night club.   He bought her and her friends shots.  Then his BODYGUARD led her to the private bathroom.  Yeah, nothing suspicious about that.  He followed her back there shortly thereafter.   Kinda creepy but I guess you could spin that different ways.  What happened in that bathroom we’ll never know.   What we do know is after she emerged from the bathroom, she IMMEDIATELY went to the cops who took her to the hospital.  At the hospital, they found BLOOD and BRUISES on her VAGINA (please stop and think about that for a minute) and took a RAPE KIT.

Yes, this sexual assault case was actually a RAPE CASE.

The rape kit found male semen.   Unfortunately, the semen sample was too small to run a DNA test so we have no idea whose little swimmers they were.   Take a wild guess.

I can’t say I’m really surprised by any of this.  First, you had Barney Fife leading the investigation.  Photos emerged of the investigating officers posing with him AFTER allegations were made.  Ben goes out and hires the best lawyer money can buy, the same lawyer who cleaned up messes left by both Ray Lewis and Pacman Jones.  This weasel then hired a whole army of “private investigators” to dress up like COLLEGE KIDS and dig up dirt on the poor victim, which no doubt explains why she later wrote a letter to the DA asking for charges to be dropped.  Meanwhile, the club where the assault occurred mysteriously decides to erase the tape which may have provided valuable clues to what happened that night.

Ben Roethlisberger’s money and fame bought him more than enough protection from the “investigation” so that justice for the poor girl who was viciously assaulted raped never stood a chance.  Forgive me for not being pumped up that our QB has skated on an alleged sexual assault rape for a second straight year.  Believe me, it’s just a matter of time until he manhandles a 17 year old high school girl so we can go through all this again…

I have been a Steeler fan dating all the way back to the time I wore a #12 tee shirt to “Black & Gold Day” in kindergarten.  The Steelers already rid themselves of one bag of crap yesterday by trading Santonio Holmes. It doesn’t appear the Steelers will do the right thing by ridding themselves of this piece of garbage.  No matter how despicable and rotten a human being Ben Roethlisberger is, I will always root for the Steelers to succeed.  And when he plays well, I will acknowledge it even though I won’t be proud.   I hope that he takes a page from Ray Lewis and finds religion so that he might turn his life around although I doubt he will.

And just like Steeler fans have always enjoyed ragging on Ray Ray, I will never be a Ben Roethlisberger fan again.