Stillers Fans at DEFCON 1- Big Ben Accused Again (Update- No Charges Filed)

You wouldn't know from the one sentence about the actual alleged assault among the 572 pages of Best Bar Night Eva!!! highlights.

 

Plenty witnesses that saw him doing what in those hours?
While I don't want to sound like I am defending him, I keep seeing the word "deviant" and "pattern" of actions being tossed around.
Before the bar incident, what were the deviant actions? Riding a motorcycle without a helmet? A bad hair cut? The Las Vegas accusations? Not being liked by his teammates?

 

Exactly - I have a serious question - if Tiger Woods were an NFL player -- are the same people here acting with such moral outrage about Big Ben be advocating he be suspeded by Roger Goodell?

Just because the juicy details make for good reading and sell a lot of magazines and publications, that doesn't change the fact that he didn't do anything worthy of a suspension.

 

Absolutely, I would call for a suspension.

It's easy to remember the Tagliabue years, when a leonard Little got off scot-free. The NFL can and should suspend and/or fine every player who brings a large amount of negative publicity to the league.

If Peyton manning had a harem equal to Tiger's, I would expect him to be called on the carpet. And rightfully so. The NFL has an image to create, maintain, sell and protect. And Goodell has the wherwithal to see that happen.

 

This all would be a lot easier of the bar did not tape over video ofthe bathroom door.

 

Do those businesses have antitrust exemptions?

Aside from that, I'm sure those individual businesses suspend employees all the time for non-criminal behavior. Hell, I was suspended one day without pay more than 10 years ago for not putting the NCAA bracket on a specific page next to a specific ad.

 

You both need to read the documents from the investigation. 572 pages. Here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0415101roethlisberger1.html

As has been said many times on this thread - including links to the CBA - he will be punished for violating the NFL/NFLPA/Steelers Conduct Policy.

 

And just to show that I am stayng course here, no way should Manning be suspended for that.

So what did the league do to Brady and Leinart?

 

I assume this was for a newspaper in Russia or Venezuela. Because that would never happen here.

 

That is being suspended for cause and/or poor job performance.

It is a totally different situation.

 

When it creates negative front-page headlines for the league for going on two months now. When it might cost the league corporate sponsorship money because questions linger about what really happened with a two-time, Super Bowl-winning quarterback in more than one situation behind closed doors.

If this were, say, a backup defensive tackle for some random, non-marquee team we wouldn't care, the league wouldn't care (aside from handing down a suspension, which would be nothing more than a brief or transaction). Given the stature of the player in question, it's different. Just like how the Tiger Woods story was so much bigger than it would've been had it been anyone other than, well, Tiger Woods.

 

Fuck, that sucks.

But that is on the job performance. Still not right, though.