Big Ben's Night Out

It's a standard story.

They have a limited series where Our Hero Big Ben gets hit on the head, and becomes The Man Without Scruples. He doesn't remember his teammates, and one of his arch enemies manages to get him to work for him, doing dastardly things. Issue No. 3 of the 4 ends with his now-former girl tearfully running away from him when she sees him at a club with his member hanging out, waiting for drunk girls to be steered to him. Observing this, his enemy laughs into the night.

Then, seeing how high the sales are, the marketing department says that Issue Four cannot be the end, despite its loud proclamation that today the hero gets traded to Football Irrelevance in Oakland.

It eventually bleeds into the main Steelers title, Our Hero Big Ben gets cloned a few times, there's a parallel universe storyline in which the Bengals and Browns have each actually won a Super Bowl, and then finally after two years of meandering plots and multiple holographic covers for each issue, Our Hero Big Ben is conked on the head again, and retires. His powers gone, he lives happily ever after.

The End.

 

Now that is the opposite of disappointing.

Though I think I'd have him disintegrate into a pile of dust at the end instead. Then on the final page, we see a tall, chunky man who looks very familiar despite a very different hair color. He had an enigmatic smile on his face as he seems to look right out at the reader.

To be continued in some asinine event five years later....

 

;D

Does the tearful now-former girl look something like Natalie Gulbis?

 

He's had his CPU shorted several times, he's going to have some deficit. Look at Biden, from the aneurysm surgeries. People think he's being a moron or a jerk when he says that shit. His brain is defective, it's never going to work the same way again.

Add heavy quantities of alcohol to the mix and it's a disaster area waiting to happen.

 

What about a Jeff Reed jersey, I here he's a stand up guy.

 

I do like the dude's do!

 

I'm not saying it isn't possible. I just don't want to hear anybody using it as an excuse, which will be the next step.

Troy Polamalu has had twice as many concussions as Roethlisberger, at least if you count only ones that are reported. You don't see his name in ugly headlines.

 

Who was the Steeler lineman who went apeshit years ago and died violently? Weird last name, looked like a mountain man. Did he have suicidal tendencies before or after his head injuries?

Has BR been a problem drinker for a while? All the stuff coming out now is indicating that could be the case.

 

Mike Webster?

Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Al Toon and Merril Hoge were all forced into retirement at least partly by repeated concussions. No criminals among them.

 

Justin Strzelczyk. Ran into a tanker truck at 90 MPH on the New York Thruway while trying to escape police. Evidence of brain damage was found in his autopsy. Not sure if he was suicidal, though.

You could be mixing up terrible tales of Steelers' linemen. Terry Long committed suicide by drinking antifreeze. Doctors later said he also suffered brain damage, likely from football, and battled depression before finally killing himself.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8578-2004Nov23.html

I see everyone wants to 'move forward' tomorrow, well, everyone but the woman who was violated.

 

Wrong link? That one is about Strzelczyk.