Posted on 01/30/2011 6:03:27 AM PST by Plumberman27
Mahogany shelves are filled with neatly lined books. Pictures that cover an adjacent wall also tell the history of the Steelers.
But what makes the second-floor room at Steelers headquarters one of the most unique libraries on the planet: Six Lombardi Trophies are displayed in a row, and they have the same effect as a six-car pile-up on the Parkway.
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Thanks for the Genius recco and thanks for supporting what I said. Go Stillers!!!
Then they started using steroids.
So, if we want to see proof instead of "repeated rape accusations" we are obnoxious assholes that piss you off? And you are the last word in cool headed logic and reason?
My life is very complete and the fact that I enjoy being a fan of the team of my choice is personal so if you didn't choke on the six Lombardi Trophies and you are already pissed off/on choke on that.
In the words of the speaker of the House," Leave me alone".
Here we go. One more week of Pittsburgh fans fellating themselves over how great they are.
I pray to the football gods to please help Aaron Rodgers shut these people up! I've never heard folks who were more full of themselves than Steeler fans.
Down with Team Obama!
This is pretty chilling. While some Steeler fans are just simply proud, I've never heard one that made comments justifying what Roethlisberger did.
This sounds exactly like what Clinton hacks said in the 90s about Bill's extracurricular activities.
Obama was all for the bears, and the Packers won. He can be all for the Steelers and I hope it’s 2 for 2 in the Packers vs. Obama matchup. I loved Woodson saying, the president doesn’t need to come visit us - we will be coming to visit the president.
I watched a documentary called Cocaine Cowboys last year and it chronicled a guy named Jon Roberts who was the main coke distributer for Griselda Blanco in Miami in the 70s.
He said that during a party he had the Friday before Super Bowl X he had the entire Steeler offensive line in his living room snorting coke off of his coffee table.
Clintonesque - blame the victim. The Democrats got it down pat.
Your definition of 'run of the mill' is amusingly stupid.
And he's never served any suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
Ignore the first two allegations and just focus on the third (chronologically the fourth, as the third was uncovered during the botched investigation of the fourth). Already about a hundred flashing lights and sirens should be going off in your head as you contemplate the fact that even adulterous professional athletes are never put in this situation once, let alone four times.
Tiger Woods, for example, slept with at least fourteen other women, and if you listen to some golf fans the actual tally is at least ten times that. He also has orders of magnitude more to lose than Roethlisberger - his endorsements, winnings, and his wife, for example, shame anything Ben’s accomplished. Yet he’s never been accused of anything like that. Alex Rodriguez is the highest paid baseball player in history. He has a known penchant for strippers and continued to be adulterous even with two young daughters. He’s never been accused of anything like that.
Now, here’s what we know about the Georgia case.
1) Roethlisberger admitted having “sexual contact” with the alleged victim.
2) Roethlisberger claims the alleged victim “fell and hit her head” in the bathroom. Bruising on the victim’s body was inconsistent with this story.
3) The victim reported the alleged incident to a police officer before being treated for her injuries at a hospital. The police officer in question was photographed just hours earlier with Roethlisberger and has been reported to have been swearing and insulting the alleged victim. He would eventually resign under threat of termination as a direct result of this incident.
4) Roethlisberger hired Ed Garland, a big-name Atlanta defense attorney.
5) The victim’s friends were prevented from reaching her in the club’s bathroom by Roethlisberger’s bodyguards, including an off-duty Coraopolis police officer. They claimed she was too drunk to be alone with him. This same police officer was reported to have dragged the victim (as in physically coerced) to a stool in the hallway.
6) Roethlisberger provided alcohol to multiple underage girls. Here, the story is interesting because either he raped the victim and her story was not alcohol-influenced, or she was too drunk to give informed consent. That’s also rape.
7) Roethlisberger had sex with her in the women’s (not men’s) bathroom, with the victim reportedly saying “no” repeatedly.
8) The club’s bathroom was unsecured and conveniently scrubbed thoroughly with Clorox and Pine-Sol.
9) Security camera footage from the club was either “taped over” or conveniently unavailable.
10) Roethlisberger changed his story, initially saying that he had ignored the accuser but later, of course, admitting to “sexual contact.”
If you are willing to accept all of that as being something other than proof (when in reality it’s actually a ton more than most people convicted of rape or sexual assault ever have against them) then I firmly wish every single female member of your family finds themselves drunk and at the mercy of Roethlisberger and his hired goons in the back of a seedy club. After all, if he’s innocent then there’s nothing to worry about, right?
I seem to remember an undefeated AFC team with Super Bowl veterans getting beaten a few years ago. Winning previous Super Bowls doesn't always mean you'll win more, especially when going up against a team that beat the three best NFC teams on the road.
If the Steelers lose, he'll probably jump off a bridge.
Soon to be 13!
No team has more super bowl championships than Pittsburgh. No team can match up to them and the will establish be called the team of the decade after Sundays trouncing of the fudge packers. Those old league championship were had when there were only 6 teams, well before the modern era of the game. It will be all over by the end of the 2nd quarter. Trouble is Ben will play for real in the second half unlike against the jets when he was held back.
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