Ben Roethlisberger: My Take on the Allegations

I am proud to be an American, and proud to be a member of Steeler Nation. We live in the greatest country in the world, and have the greatest football team in the world.

Sometimes, when things seem to go bad in life, we can look to our sports to get away from reality, if only for a couple hours.

But when things go wrong with our sports, then where do we look?

I remember three years ago. It was shortly after the Steelers' Super Bowl victory over the Seattle Seahawks. There was a report on PFT that Big Ben Roethlisberger had been in a motorcycle accident.

What was my first thought?

I hope he can play this season. If you say your FIRST thought was anything other than that, you are lying.

After the initial report, and realizing how serious it was, the real concern for the person set in. Suddenly, football was not that important.

After he had a chance to recover, just before the beginning of the season, Ben had an emergency appendectomy. He was to miss the first game of the season, against the Miami Dolphins.

Now, here we are, three years later, and again, we get bad news about our beloved quarterback, Big Ben.

This is in no way as serious as the motorcycle accident that almost killed him, and also in no way as dangerous as his appendectomy.

I am not saying that these charges are not serious, or if they happened, not criminal.  What I am saying is that the plaintiff wants money, not justice. 

If you would like to read the entire complaint, you can right here. However, you are going to need a good amount of time because it is very long.

Anyway, there are a few things that bother me about her story, but I can honestly say, I don't believe her.

Is it because I am such a sports fan, I don't want to? Is it because I am a Steelers fan, so I don't want to believe it?

It is because, in my opinion, had he really done the things that she said he did, I believe that this entire situation would have been handled differently.

First, there were no criminal charges that were filed when it happened.

At this point, everyone that wants to compare this to the Kobe Bryant incident has to stop. The lady that accused Kobe immediately went to the police. Andrea McNulty did not.

Starting at point 53: Ben Roethlisberger said in front of Ms. McNulty and other employees that his T.V. was not working.

Here he is, a good friend of the owner, and he says in front of a group of employees that his T.V. is not working properly.

How many of you out there believe for one second that someone who is a close personal friend of the owner of one of these prestigious clubs, that there would not be a fleet of maintenance men there in 30 seconds flat to fix or replace that T.V.?

Point 85: If there are cameras all the way around the hotel, especially outside of Ben's door, don't you think that the evidence of how long Ms. McNulty was in the room should have been copied?

If it were, then they would have not only been able to see how long she was in the room, but the state of her appearance as well.

I used to install high-end surveillance systems, and unless marked as important to save, they are usually erased within two weeks.

If this video was not dubbed over then, by now, it is gone.

Point 89: The next day, Ms. McNulty tells the head of security what happened.

I have two questions about this: 

1. Why did she feel compelled to tell the head of security?

2. Why did she not file a police report?

What could a security guard do?

The police, had they been notified, would have done the rape kit to pull DNA to see if there was any sexual contact at all.

The points go on and on, but in reality, as it was said in an article by Daniel Rose, no one but Ben Roethlisberger, Andrea McNulty, and God have any idea of what happened in that room.

That is if anything even happened.