Roethlisberger coverage going too far

I'm no fan of Big Ben, but this seems excessive.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2010/07/14/did-roethlisberger-water-golf-course.html?sid=101

I know, I read it, which was the intended purpose, but I felt stupid after reading it.

 

If that's a crime, I'd be in prison for a long, long time.
As long as he kept it off the fairways and first cut of rough, it's fine.

 

That would be too far for a Pennsylvania paper. Not for an Ohio paper. Steelers aren't allowed to whiz on sacred ground.

 

I do think it's excessive, but there's another side to the coin.

With his reputation and what he's done to put himself under the microscope, he can't urinate in public. He can't be with people who urinate in public. He has to be 100 percent appropriate, 100 percent of the time, and only be with people who will do the same.

Is peeing on a golf course the end of the world? Of course not, and it's silly that the police were called. But if he can't see that he is under an absolute zero-tolerance policy, and he has to behave as perfectly as humanly possible, then he is as unintelligent as his critics have said.

It's one of those things where you get what you deserve.

 

Did Bob Baptist do any original reporting on this?

 

Timmy's exactly right. Fuck him (Ben, not Timmy). He deserves all of this and a whole lot more.

 

If an "Everyday Joe" did something like this, there would be no issue. However, I'm surprised that the golf club called police in to investigate. Sort of seems excessive. Roethlisberger should have known that this wouldn't end well. Unless he was completely clean during the rest of the year, Goodell will keep him for the season.

 

Lots of the superexpensive homes on these superexpensive golf courses - like Muirfield - are built right on the course. They're only a few feet into the treeline. So if someone sneaks into the woods to urinate, they're flopping their junk out right in front of some nice lady and her Wednesday book club. That's how you wind up with a call to the cops.

 

I'm just glad his golf ball did not get charged with a tresspassing and destruction of property.

Ben made this bed, though. He has to sleep in it, but if anything crap like this might make people a little bit (not totally) sympathetic to Ben.