Roethlisberger in motorcycle accident?

We are going to need to get an SportsJournalists.com official statement up on the wire. Can someone handle for us. I think we need to offer the usual speedy recovery but we also need to mention the need to wear helmets.

 

and condoms.

 

It also stopped a kick-ass graduation party I was at.

 

Dear Ben,

If you can still read, please do the following:


USE THIS

 

Seems like too big a risk for juxtaposing that would cause us great embarrassment.  

 

Moddy obviously you do not have any Irish in ya lad.

 

Boom, why don't you do it? You're good at the official SportsJournalists.com condolence statements, just please stress the importance of wearing a helmet, please, please, please.

 

Agreed that there's nothing funny about it, Moddy, but I'm not going to wring my hands about it, either. Anybody who rides a motorcycle without a helmet immediately loses any sympathy they might have had from me.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not glad it happened. But I'm not going to shed a tear for him, and I think those cracking jokes are probably coming from the same side of the sympathy spectrum. They're just expressing it in a different way.

 

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/accident.html

Roethlisberger, who led the Steelers to a Super Bowl championship this year, slammed into the windshield, rolled over the car and landed on the pavement, striking his head again, said a woman who witnessed the accident.

The witness, who declined to give her name, asked Roethlisberger several times if he was OK. He eventually replied, "My name is Ben."

He asked: "Where am I?"

"You're at the Armstrong Tunnel," the witness said.

"What city is that in?" he said.

"Pittsburgh," the woman replied.

Roethlisberger fell silent for about a minute and then tried to stand up.

"I'm OK," he said.

"No you're not," said the woman, who instructed him to stay still.

 

If you take your Harley for a ride be sure to wear a jimmy cap.