The re-education of Steeler Nation

Sports. Sports. Sports. I love them…in fact that’s an understatement because I owe nearly every bit of knowledge I’ve ever soaked up in life to watching, playing and understanding them. Hell, I learned American Geography and state capitals from knowing where nearly all the major university stadiums are. Thank you Brent Musberger….even if you do suck at generally stating the obvious in every major college football game ever played dating back to the Holy Roman Empire I got a 100% in American Geography. And thanks to you Sir John Madden… I do agree that Brett Favre should have his own national holiday…but that it should be on the 4th of every month to be celebrated by buying cheese and explaining to youngsters that the goal of football is to score more points than the other team.

All kidding aside (temporarily)…sports are culturally important. Even if you’re not a “sports person” per say, you will hear about sports quite a bit…especially in this community. So, in saying that, it must come as no surprise that though the present state of Pittsburgh sports has been “heated” to say the least…I’m still in full support of it.

GET OVER IT. Whining about the piss poor justice system and how it has handled two time Super Bowl champion Ben Roethlisberger has nothing to do with all the criticism and negative attention that he, his teammates, the Rooney’s, and the NFL has absorbed in a matter of months. It’s just good ole American justice at its finest.

Please read this slowly if you are of the mind that Ben Roethlisberger should be cut from the Steelers 53 man roster or should be excommunicated to St. Louis via trade in the coming week.
America is the ONLY civilized and industrialized nation in the world that establishes innocence until guilt can be proven by data, credible witnesses and a preponderance of the evidence. Sorry for the legal speak….but quite honestly…who hasn’t worked the justice system in western PA??? I do it every year when I get a speeding ticket.

Onto the current predicament.
Do Ben, his teammates, the Rooney’s and the NFL deserve to be brow beat for this? The simple answer is no….but by saying simple I’m sure that most Western PA natives will quickly resort to telling me how they are part of some rich sports heritage that God has somehow blessed and bestowed upon them because the Steelers, the Penguins, and the “Succos” have represented the city of Pittsburgh since the early 1970’s with championship caliber play both on the field and off it. That is not the case however.

Logically then, the next question is why did Santonio Holmes (San Antonio Holmes to most “average “ Stiller fans) take the fall for all the bad behavior recently? Clean out your ears all you Republican Regan fans….SPORTS IS A BUSINESS and the Rooney’s GET MONEY. (a reference that most of the kids understand…)

Santonio Holmes is a thug and a talented one at that. I liked him…he was my thug. I probably would have chilled with him at the club and drank Remmy Martin or deflected the glass he threw at that bitch…

I, in essence, have @ times acted just like him minus the woman beating and the marijuana charges. Oh wait…you weren’t familiar with that were you? Allow me to enlighten you.

Ben is treated as a disgusting slob because of two alleged reports of assault/sexual misconduct toward women. Nothing has been proven…in fact there was never a charge filed EVER because a “preponderance of evidence” was never found to be substantial enough to build a case upon.
Please feel free to liken this to building a house on top of quicksand….it doesn’t take a super genius to conclude exactly how that is going to work out.

But Bluntman…aka #10… Mr. MVP has in fact been found GUILTY of twice assaulting women…and worse yet…it was for beating up the mother of his three little girls…and to make it worse yet…he assaulted her drunk and in front of all 3 little girls in their home. That’s 2 strikes.
He’s had a drunken and disorderly conduct charge in college and he’s also been caught, charged and suspended for possession of marijuana. All of this adds up to one simple conclusion for ¾ of the redneck Steeler nation: THE ROONEY’S are racist.

Little do they realize the Rooney’s enacted the “Rooney Rule” which states that when NFL teams interview for available coaching positions they must include candidates that are African American. The NFL enforces it through fines and stripping teams of compensatory draft picks and it is taken quite seriously.

But in spite of this, of course the Rooney’s are racist…they traded the black guy but not Mr. Whitey…..or perhaps just maybe the dumbass people that make this claim should look no further than the coach….because the last time I checked Mike Tomlin would pass for white about as well as I would pass for Denzel Washington.

Holmes had to go. He was suspended for 4 games of the upcoming season and because he is a 5 time proven offender of America’s justice system, he picked a bad time to throw his drink at a bitch. Thank you Jets…I hope we get a good special teamer out of that 5th round pick…at least he’ll make some tackles while Sherlock Holmes is trying to philander his way out of charge # 6…7….8….or jail time because trust me it is coming. He’s only 26 and hasn’t gotten that big contract yet. What owner is gonna give it to him??? Probably Mike Tannenbaum …aka the GM and owner of the Jets. Consider that your NFL education for the day.

Ben Roethlisberger is an asshole in some capacity, he acts like he’s 16 and never learned how to treat a lady. Of that fact I am 100% convinced but still that is no crime in America, in fact it is indeed encouraged by MTV on a nightly basis…

I am also convinced that Ben needs to get his ass in gear and take the blessings that pro sports have allowed him to have and run with it. Especially because he represents a proud, ignorant and overly obsessive group of blue collar pix-burghers every time he takes the field draped in black and gold…..

Still, the Rooney’s made the right decision. You can’t cut a 100 million dollar contract holder, 60% of which is guaranteed $$$ and live to tell about it. The Atlanta Falcons did it with Mike Vick but that was because he was a proven offender of the justice system and they got a good chunk of $$$ back in court by sueing him for it. That will not happen with Ben because nothing has been proven. If he is traded he will take 60 million bones with him and the backbone of the Steelers BUSINESS. The Rooney’s are gamblers… trust me when I say they understand the impact it would have.

Imagine if you owned a trucking company. The talent that makes your business thrive is the experienced DRIVERS. So if they all get a ton of speeding tickets or drink on the weekends and hit their wives do you fire them and promote the mechanics to drive because of a sudden attack of conscience and morality? Hell no…all business owners know where their bread is buttered and so do the Rooney’s. They will not cut or trade him because it would be a financial nightmare.

Ben is a good QB….the best this city has seen. But beyond anything, redneck old timers who watch the Steelers HATE their QB’s and generally hate anyone who is bigger than the team. Ask Terry Bradshaw….or Tommy Maddox…or Kordell Stewart…or Neil O’Donell…hell ask Barry Foster, Plaxico Burress or even Franco Harris who couldn’t even retire as a Steeler. All were run out of town by the FANS and management.

Hell, Kordell had rumors spread that he was gay, Tommy Maddox’s son was beaten up in high school for a Sunday loss and had his front yard set on fire…..the fans here are the ones that are guilty of crimes….defamation of character, slander, assault….etc etc…ok some more…..

NO CLASS…no respect…idiotic opinions, and most of all….rumor mongering and “he said she said” is not damning evidence in a court of law….it’s called “hear say” and it is thrown out of court faster than that DTF slut was thrown off of Ben’s…well you know :)

Winning cures all…if there is anything America and subsequently Pittsburgh loves it’s a winner. Ben Is a winner and he can right this ship faster than anyone. Look @ KOBE…look @ RAY RAY…look at Derek Jeter (who sleeps with more slutty women than anyone)…look at Mike Tyson…I can keep going people.

So please, just shut up about Ben and the Steelers…you’re not an NFL GM…you have no clue what you’re talking about and generally don’t know the difference between how front office operations should be handled and how a debit card works. Stick with managing your God Damn Farmville’s and Facebook Aquarium’s you stupid peons and leave the Steelers and Ben alone.
Or just watch sports and actually learn that it is a business…

& while you’re at it watch some Judge Judy because apparently it is difficult for you to grasp the elementary statutes of law. Hell, please look up the term “preponderance of evidence”… But if you take away one thing from this mammoth article then please understand this above all else….

“The goal of football is to score more points that the other team.”

Ben does that….and as long as he continues to do that he will have a place on the roster.

Thank you Mr. John Madden…though you are cryogenically frozen each year and then thawed out to interview Brett Favre for ABC sports and ESPN on Monday Nights…you have taught me one thing more than the jealous ignorant hicks that live and thrive in Western PA.

The Stillers need BEN ROETHELISBERGER. Not the other way around.
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