Onion: Ben Roethlisberger One Win Away From Being Good Person

[cheesehurdler]

Hilarious article relating winning to player morality.

"After being accused of ****** assault twice in three years, Ben Roethlisberger can fully redeem himself by winning Super Bowl XLV."


Link: Ben Roethlisberger One Win Away From Being Good Person | The Onion Sports Network

 

[Incubes12]

The story of pro sports. We forgive all of your transgressions to society and your sins, as long as you entertain us with your freakishly good skills.

(See: Mike Vick)

 

[Murgen]

Cowboys Nate Newton as well. Got a radio gig now after getting out of prison. He said it on air, if I didn't have the football connection and was just an average guy, there is no way anybody would give me another chance.

 

[Forget Favre]

He just looks like a thug.

 

[Forget Favre]

Cowboys Nate Newton as well. Got a radio gig now after getting out of prison. He said it on air, if I didn't have the football connection and was just an average guy, there is no way anybody would give me another chance.

Cool that he's being honest.

 

[Jess]

I remember watching that last night on Comedy Central and thinking "I know it's supposed to be funny, but it's so damn true." :icon_lol:

 

[cheesehurdler]

Maybe if folks like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, the Unabomber, and Saddam Hussein suddenly become football players and each win the Superbowl, we'll all magically forget their crimes against humanity and have ESPN deem winning a championship of an escapist sport their "redemption", instead of, you know, donating funds to curing cancer or AIDS or feeding starving children in Africa or some meaningless drivel.

 

[Pegger Packer]

Funny stuff, loved the little newsbreak "Mike Vick still dog-murderer after Wild-card loss" haha

 

[LombardiChick]

Maybe if folks like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, the Unabomber, and Saddam Hussein suddenly become football players and each win the Superbowl, we'll all magically forget their crimes against humanity and have ESPN deem winning a championship of an escapist sport their "redemption", instead of, you know, donating funds to curing cancer or AIDS or feeding starving children in Africa or some meaningless drivel.

O.J. Simpson is an excellent example of this phenomenon, actually. Proof positive an NFL star can get away with quite a lot and still be absolved by a segment of the population. I personally know someone who doesn't believe O.J. killed his wife and Ron Goldman, and there is no reasoning with him at all. Won't even concede the possibility.

P.S. I love The Onion. Hilarious stuff.

 

[Steeler Tim]

It's a sad but true statement about our society. We do forgive a lot if the person is famous. I do think there is a big difference between people like Vick and Leonard Little versus Kobe and Big Ben. In the first case these people were convicted. With the other two it is all innuendo and media hype where we don't know what happened. I think that is a big difference between the two.

There is also the reverse. I don't think Dante Stalworth would have been convicted or even charged except he was famous. A guy runs out in the middle of the road in front of his car. Not a lot he could do.

 

[TheSnowPlow]

There is also the reverse. I don't think Dante Stalworth would have been convicted or even charged except he was famous. A guy runs out in the middle of the road in front of his car. Not a lot he could do.

Probably having alcohol in his system (iirc, he wasn't actually legally drunk, but still...) didn't help him any, either.

 

[VolvoD]

TheSnowPlow, you gotta change your signature pic man, its too damn scary.

 

[TheSnowPlow]

TheSnowPlow, you gotta change your signature pic man, its too damn scary.

But it's a good luck picture. I'm afraid to change it. :snack: