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polamalubeast
11-11-2010, 11:20 AM
So, yeah, there’s a lot to admire about these Pittsburgh Steelers, with one major, notable, glaring exception: Ben Roethlisberger.

I sincerely doubt that I could ever root for a football team that had this loathsome buffoon quarterbacking it. Some of my best friends in the world happen to be Steeler fans and I’ve seen what they’ve gone through the last few years as the world has learned the extent of Ben Roethlisberger’s idiocy, and I want no part of it.

It’s trite and a little condescending to paint all Steeler fans with the same brush... that they’re all God fearin’, blue collar types straight out of “Deer Hunter” who like their Iron City beer cold and their football players hard workin’. But I can stereotype them this way: The vast majority of Pittsburgh football fans prefer that their players NOT be drunken, reckless, stupid, self-absorbed misanthropes who like to hassle girls.

Which is precisely what we’ve learned Big Ben is. The Sports Illustrated cover article about him from last May was a magnum opus of this guy’s knuckleheadedry. Ben bothering pregnant waitresses. Ben chewing & screwing at restaurants. Ben surrounding himself with a posse of paid sycophants but weaseling out of paying $5 cover charges. Ben repeatedly pulling the “Don’t you know who I am?” when anyone dare suggest he act like a human being. And mostly though, you get a picture of Big Ben being incapable of keeping Li’l Ben where it belongs and harassing drunken 20 year-old coeds every chance he gets.

read more

http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/general/jerry-thornton/2010/11/10/ben-roethlisberger-reason-never-root-steelers

Craic
11-11-2010, 11:23 AM
Already posted... though under a different heading.

http://www.steelersuniverse.com/forums/showthread.php/4085-Patriot-propaganda