09-17-2018, 09:56 PM
(09-17-2018, 07:43 PM)Whatever Wrote: Let's be real here, Roethlisberger was suspended because people were crying racism. The argument was how can you suspend an African American QB(Vick) for dogfighting and let a white QB(Ben) get off scott free with rape. Had Vick not gotten caught, Ben wouldn't have been suspended. After puffing himself up and swearing he would fight the McNulty civil case to the bitter end to clear his good name, he quietly settled the matter out of court. The Milledgeville investigation was horribly botched(perhaps deliberately). The night club where the incident happened had erased all the security tapes and scrubbed out the bathroom with bleach(destroying any DNA evidence) before the police showed up to collect evidence the next day.
In the Pac Man incident you're talking about, he was hit in the face with a bottle by the woman. I'm not defending his reaction, but she technically assaulted him first.
Harrison was a dirty player that was repeatedly fined, but only ever got a 1 game suspension. Burfict got a 3 game suspension with less of a track record and the league made sure to make one of the games he was suspended for one of the Steelers games when they made the schedule.
Furthermore, Steelers OL Cody Wallace sexually assaulted Dolphins DT Randy Starks in a pile by ramming his thumb into Stark's anus.
https://www.reddit.com/r/miamidolphins/comments/1sn0p4/in_case_you_missed_it_here_is_steelers_c_cody/
Wallace was fined, but not suspended for the dirtiest on field act against another player in the history of the game.
Of course, the dirtiest off field act by a player against a rival player was Joey Porter and his posse's gang beating and felony robbery of Bengal's T Levi Jones in a Las Vegas casino.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwgniB0e_VE
The Las Vegas DA dropped the felony robbery charges when Jones's gold chain was "anonymously" returned to the casino and Porter received a slap on the wrist 4 game suspension. Dude should have been banned from the game for life.
Porter was as much a Bengal as he was a Steeler when he assaulted Jones. He was a Dolphin at that time.
On a side note, our high school just played Porters kids hs team last Friday night. Porter was there looking pissed off because our boys unexpectedly hung with them for 3 quarters and looked to be poised to pull off an upset.
But his kid.....
Good player but massive shit talker. Massive. Taunting our kids on the sideline all night long. Refs should have warned him but Im sure they know who he is so he got away with it. He learned well from daddy.
Oh, and I've never heard any connection between Vick and Ben and their punishments. Thats a first.
