Our good friends (except when they are saying Mike Vick shouldn’t get an award) ProFootballTalk.com brought this story to our attention. By the way out of all the people in the media I only trust Mike Florio (besides myself) to report this Roethlisberger case straight down the middle.
Long time Steelers sports media personality John Steigerwald just started a blog today (please dear lord someone get him a web designer asap it looks awful) and he didn’t take any time before blasting Ben Roethlisberger. To be perfectly honest I am shocked by this because Pittsburgh isn’t like NYC, Dallas or Philly. The Pittsburgh media is normally very respectful for the Steelers and are not quick to criticize, but here is what Steigerwald had to say about Roethlisberger:
Ben is a bad citizen. He doesn’t know how to treat people and he definitely doesn’t know how to handle being the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. In my more than 30 years of working in the Pittsburgh sports media, I have never had any player come close to generating as many unsolicited questions from fans as Roethlisberger has. They want to know why he’s such a jackass.
Even Nas was like “that is some strong ether”.
Remember what I have always told you in regards to any athlete or entertainer, you don’t know them so you shouldn’t put them on a pedestal regardless of what their “public image” is.
With that being said regardless if you think Roethlisberger is a good or bad citizen means nothing when it comes to his criminal case.
The criminal case is about facts and evidence not him being a “jackass” as Mr. Steigerwald so eloquently says.