Big Ben's Night Out

... as does Gary Miller.

 

Excellent question, BYH. I'm amazed that either Roethlisberger, his agent or the team haven't assigned him a "babysitter" to keep him out of this kind of trouble.

 

Make it eight.

And Goodell should call Roethlisberger and say, "If I hear anything more about you even sneezing on the sidewalk, you can plan on taking a couple years off, fuckstick."

 

Normally, no player would be disciplined by the NFL for this, Starman. Do you understand the idea behind the conditional suspension? Keep his nose clean and it drops to four. Do anything stupid and it stays at six. That is how the commish laid it out. This certainly qualifies as something that would keep it at six, should the commish decide to go that route.

 

"Keep your nose clean" should mean "no parking tickets, no 30 mph in a 25 mph zone, no overdue library books."

Another sex-oriented crime (public urination in Ohio is the first stage to being listed on the sex offenders registry) is more than a fucking parking ticket.

 

Do you really think the NFL would suspend a player with no record for pissing in public? To me, that is the test to whether or not they just hold the suspension at six games or extend it.

Then again, the commish now has the power to do whatever he wants, so nothing would surprise me.

 

Apples and oranges, JC. I am not suspended from work for six weeks for pulling my Johnson out. And I've never peed on a golf course. But that's just because I don't golf.

 

The reaction is overblown, but the incident is not completely insignificant. I do think Roethlisberger was on track to have his suspension reduced to four games. If it turns out that he did this, I am fairly certain it will be the full six. I really do think the commmish is that fed up with Roethlisberger.

 

Of course they are. Didn't Forbes recently rank him as one of the most hated people in sports? Not that he hasn't earned his place there, but I would expect people to be ready tear into him at any opportunity.

 

I live in the state. People get busted for public urination/exposure all the time, be it on the 18th hole or otherwise. Just had a local teacher go through the ringer with his job because of of it.

 

Didn't he have a babysitter the night he got into trouble?

 

Perhaps that alleged rape played into it..
Ask yourself what happens if your boss says "one more incident and you're gone" and then you get someone calling the cops on you for peeing in public...