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Ben Roethlisberger is expected to get a 4-6 game suspension for violating the league's personal-conduct policy. Do you think this is sufficiant? Should he get more/less?
Discuss.
Discuss.
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I think its funny that the Rams and Bills said no. Roethlisberger is pretty good and established, but whatever.
Anyways I like the suspension, I think it about time pro atheletes are held to a higher standard by the league due to their role-model status. Maybe baseball and basketball will follow. Although its a bit of too little too late considering Stalworth was drunk and killed a guy, but at least they are trying lol.
I know this is off topic, but the Stallworth case isn't quite so black and white. While I don't excuse Stallworth driving drunk (I genuinely believe he thought he was sober, as I've been there myself, to be honest. Not excusing it, just being up front,) the circumstances surrounding his accident lead me to believe the same thing would have happened even if he was sober. The guy he hit ran out in front of oncoming traffic, and Stallworth literally had nowhere to go. It's not like he ran off the road and plowed into the guy. He wasn't swerving or driving erratic. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In my own experience, I've had instances where some ******* will just dart out in front of me and I had to take evasive action to avoid hitting them. One was a pretty narrow miss as my options were to drive into oncoming traffic or hit the guy.
Back on topic, I read somewhere that NFL arrests have decreased by almost half under Gooddell. To me that's a pretty good sign, and I hope the league continues to hold the players to a higher moral standard. 6 games for Ben seems fair to me. Hopefully he'll seek help.
But we can never know... Facts are that alcohol impairs rapid reactions, and that he was drunk...I know this is off topic, but the Stallworth case isn't quite so black and white. While I don't excuse Stallworth driving drunk (I genuinely believe he thought he was sober, as I've been there myself, to be honest. Not excusing it, just being up front,) the circumstances surrounding his accident lead me to believe the same thing would have happened even if he was sober. The guy he hit ran out in front of oncoming traffic, and Stallworth literally had nowhere to go. It's not like he ran off the road and plowed into the guy. He wasn't swerving or driving erratic. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In my own experience, I've had instances where some ******* will just dart out in front of me and I had to take evasive action to avoid hitting them. One was a pretty narrow miss as my options were to drive into oncoming traffic or hit the guy.
Back on topic, I read somewhere that NFL arrests have decreased by almost half under Gooddell. To me that's a pretty good sign, and I hope the league continues to hold the players to a higher moral standard. 6 games for Ben seems fair to me. Hopefully he'll seek help.