Wasn't there some guy who played quarterback for the Steelers one time that that happened to? Can't remember his name ... Brent Hamburger ... Ben Hackenschleimer ... something like that ... ah, no bells.
But in all seriousness, I think false or at least dubious sexual assault accusations do happen a LOT against pro athletes, because it is one of the best possible ways to blackmail them, or just get revenge. Also by its nature, something that is hazy and difficult to definitively disprove. So really a great tool for anyone looking to start some shit. People are not necessarily good by nature.
There have been a few in the recent past that turned out that way ... if I recall, there was one NFL player (on the 49ers?) who countersued for extortion and won, and others that have gone away after it was discovered the whole intention was to blackmail someone. Many start this simply by "threatening to release sex tapes" (cases such as Zeke Elliott, Von Miller, Jaromir Jagr - most boss response ever, by the way), and it is not too far from there to making accusations, depending on who the person is and how twisted their motivation. Hell, there was even a scheme many years ago to blackmail Jerome Bettis with a trumped-up assault accusation, but that was discredited:
http://old.post-gazette.com/steelers...ttis0912p4.asp
... then you have cases like Brian Banks, where false accusations successfully derailed a guy's career and ruined his life. So this "it never happens" line is just not true.
The ones that DO seem to almost always be true are the accusations of violence. I can recall very few, if any, where there wasn't at least something to it.
Having said all of that, there is really nothing in this case that would lead me to believe Tony Brown's word is any better than this woman's, or she's making it up and should be dismissed out of hand, or anything like that. Who knows, have to wait and see.
Oh! It was
Rapistberger. Ben
RAPISTBERGER! That was the guy I was thinking of.
Makes sense, if I had to put up with that guy for any length of time, I'd probably be estranged from him too.