Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum)

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Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#1 » by MadCityBucky » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:58 pm

4 games ban at minimum, 6 games max depending on he acts.

I think it's a big harsh considering the case was dropped in court. I would've personally given him a 1-2 game ban.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#2 » by vincecarter4pres » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:12 pm

I'm really up in the air as to whether he committed the crime in question. I have read the entire police report and heard all the reports. I don't think we'll ever know if it's true or not, only the involved parties will. It's really shady on both sides.
Thing is though, even if he is innocent of rape, which it seems he is, at least legally, he was getting a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds drunk in public and got caught.
Plus the embarrasment this has brought to the league and organization is pretty bad.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#3 » by Liqourish » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:55 pm

According to Chris Mortensen on ESPN, Ben has a long list of "incidents" that including situations the public isn't even aware of. This apparently cuts far deeper than this one situation in Georgia.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#4 » by daddyfivestar » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:47 pm

Wow. If it's all 6, that pretty much ends the Steelers season - all for a Girls Gone Wild moment by Ben.

Seriously though, what normal single mid 20's guy hasn't tried to get 19/20 yr olds drunk? They're more fun, often hotter, and don't have marriage or baby making on the brain like women Ben's age.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#5 » by Turk Nowitzki » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:59 pm

daddyfivestar wrote:Wow. If it's all 6, that pretty much ends the Steelers season - all for a Girls Gone Wild moment by Ben.

Seriously though, what normal single mid 20's guy hasn't tried to get 19/20 yr olds drunk? They're more fun, often hotter, and don't have marriage or baby making on the brain like women Ben's age.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but what Big Ben allegedly did went way beyond getting a girl drunk.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#7 » by daddyfivestar » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:24 pm

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daddyfivestar wrote:Wow. If it's all 6, that pretty much ends the Steelers season - all for a Girls Gone Wild moment by Ben.

Seriously though, what normal single mid 20's guy hasn't tried to get 19/20 yr olds drunk? They're more fun, often hotter, and don't have marriage or baby making on the brain like women Ben's age.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but what Big Ben allegedly did went way beyond getting a girl drunk.


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Anyone who puts GGW in a post is clearly in sarcasm mode.
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Post#8 » by Pharmcat » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:35 pm

marvelous ruling by goodell, although I wouldve given him 10 games
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#9 » by Flash3 » Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:48 pm

Should've suspended him for half a season and just left it at that.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#10 » by Reks » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:24 am

There goes the Steelers season. Unless the defense can return to their year 2005 selves.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#11 » by Ong_dynasty » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:26 am

hisairness13 wrote:There goes the Steelers season. Unless the defense can return to their year 2005 selves.


the 2008 d wouldn't be too bad!
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#12 » by vincecarter4pres » Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:26 am

Liqourish wrote:According to Chris Mortensen on ESPN, Ben has a long list of "incidents" that including situations the public isn't even aware of. This apparently cuts far deeper than this one situation in Georgia.

I haven't even seen the Mortensen report, but a friend and I were discussing this and I had brought that up that I thought there had to be a long list of incidents that the public weren't aware of, probably related to drunken debauchery and douchebaggery, and that this was the last straw even if the girl making these accusations was lying or at least stretching the truth.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#13 » by Wizards2Lottery » Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:31 am

I'm sorry but what kind of mid 20's professional athlete goes to small college towns and bar hops for college girls. This guy should be banging super models not dumb sorority bitches who an average college guy gets to bone plenty of times.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#14 » by El Turco » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:04 pm

Wizards2Lottery wrote:I'm sorry but what kind of mid 20's professional athlete goes to small college towns and bar hops for college girls. This guy should be banging super models not dumb sorority bitches who an average college guy gets to bone plenty of times.


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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#15 » by vincecarter4pres » Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:08 pm

Wizards2Lottery wrote:I'm sorry but what kind of mid 20's professional athlete goes to small college towns and bar hops for college girls. This guy should be banging super models not dumb sorority bitches who an average college guy gets to bone plenty of times.

Very true.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#16 » by Icness » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:02 pm

Wizards2Lottery wrote:I'm sorry but what kind of mid 20's professional athlete goes to small college towns and bar hops for college girls. This guy should be banging super models not dumb sorority bitches who an average college guy gets to bone plenty of times.


A little crude but I agree. And that's Big Ben's problem--he's a 14-year old dumba$$ horndogger surrounded by sycophants who enable him to live and act like one.

I'm still up in the air on the suspension. It seems like an awful steep penalty for not being charged, but I'm aware of some of what Mort is referring to and if some of those are true he got off real light. Interesting to see how Ben handles it.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#17 » by CentralQB5 » Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:25 am

Pharmcat wrote:marvelous ruling by goodell, although I wouldve given him 10 games


10 games...? are you kidding me? its not like the guys killed some one i think 4-6 games is ok for him the get. he will learn and the steelers will feel it. But hey what a good way for someone like Denis Dixson to make a bigger name for him self and take this opportunity to show the Steelers he can play
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#18 » by Worm Guts » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:43 pm

CentralQB5 wrote:
its not like the guys killed some one


You're right, it's not like he killed someone. It was only rape.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#19 » by Roger Murdock » Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:15 pm

My friends have seen him at bars at Miami Ohio and say hes a total creep trying to get on the drunkest girls basically.
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Re: Big Ben suspended (4 games minimum) 

Post#20 » by Pharmcat » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:01 am

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Pharmcat wrote:marvelous ruling by goodell, although I wouldve given him 10 games


10 games...? are you kidding me? its not like the guys killed some one i think 4-6 games is ok for him the get. he will learn and the steelers will feel it. But hey what a good way for someone like Denis Dixson to make a bigger name for him self and take this opportunity to show the Steelers he can play


6 games for the offense 4 for the stupidity/arrogance
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