space lesbians v the reanimated corpse of ben roethlisberger: welcome to the first superbowl of president obama's changeocracy

seriously what is this

ARIZONA/PITTSBURGH - pitt

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/articles/2009/01/18/20090118spt-cards.html this article is a treat: the headline + the denny green referencing lede!

I would've picked the Cards over the Ravens, but not over the Stillers.

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Stillorz

Howie Long sez, "You want to crown them, go ahead and crown their asses" you latte truck drinking pussy with a tramp stamp.

Peyton Manning Productions Script Meeting

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST:
Parlaying Cards getting 7 + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ BIG BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

and if you're feeling frisky:

Parlaying Cards straight-up money line + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$ EVEN BIGGER BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

The universe doesn't make any sense after the last three weeks. Not picking.

i refuse to believe that arizona's defeats of loltlanta, carlolina, and philoldelphia are indicative of anything other than a combination of good fortune and three teams with a young confused qb, an occasionally int prone comedy qb, and a dense, unaware qb. then i remember that roethlisberger fits all three descriptions so all bets are off.

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^^ gifs together at last!

let's go CARDS!

Prediction: least watched Superbowl in history

Nah...it's the Steelers, they are like the Cowboys for fans that drive trucks.

a dear friend of my mom, my aunt julie, who was from wv and a huge steelers fan, once gave me a steelers rain poncho in about 1977. i wore that shit like every day. i never saw ANYONE else with a rain PONCHO. esp on those sunny days.

anyway, she's gone now, but for her, and my 10 y/o self and that damn pvc rain poncho, it's the steelers this year. (i miss you aunt julie, you were a sweetheart. rip.)

heh. my hometown is in the panhandle of MD, and the WV border took on a lot of significance there as far as ppl being snobby about "ok we are in a kinda rundown small city in appalachia.. but at least we don't live in west virginia." even though it is a couple miles away and not that different (lower taxes, worse roads, can buy beer and cigarettes on sundays). i also realized the majority of folks on the MD side are likely to be redskins fans, and *all* the steelers fans i know are from the WV side.

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um cards fan dude changed his avatar to this

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:(

yurgh... matt ryan is on carson daly tonight... such conflicting emotions~

during the regular season if you had told me that arizona v pittsburgh was on, i would've asked what the night game was.

These essays are really good, but Christ, why does the Village Voice have to bring up politics all the goddamned time? I hate politics! If I wanted to read about the election, I'd read a fucking Newsweek.

Sorry. Just venting a little. Go Cards.

what are you talking about

what is this new devilry

i hate this stupid superbowl you guys.

I'm hoping it's just a 60-min highlight reel for Fitzgerald, but that's probably out of the question.

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ok that's special

oh btw another giants wide receiver got shot. with a gun!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpCCryvk3XXW2FeRTUwSm2o3RqyQD95SI2H00

i think what's going on in arizona now is probably the biggest bandwagon jumping of all time...

I think I'm jumping on the Cards bandwagon in a complete ridic way

I'm on it. Go Cards.

the presence of warner means i can never fully have love for the cards, but otherwise i'm there.

I love watching Warner play, just turn off his interviews and you will be fine.

I will basically be thrown out of my family if I don't root for Pittsburgh. That would be very sad.

suggest banned: all of you

i think im just going to continue rooting for the giants

i feel like brownie should be given a dispensation because he is a browns fan.

"i think im just going to continue rooting for the giants"

Where, on the golf course?

good one bill magill

shooting range

i feel like brownie should be given a dispensation because he is a browns fan.

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ya i agree, if he can't root against the steelers then dangit what's the point of anything~

also i dont mind warner too much cuz at least he walks the walk re: the jesus shit, dude is mad generous and also doesnt like murder dudes or have multiple families

applebees

GO CARDS

(ps i cannot be sb'd, nelson-laugh x1000)

okay fine but he seems so filled with rage when he's playing!

xposts about warner

warner is filled with a righteous anger!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/local/team?team=pit

You have to navigate to the Steelers clubhouse and click on news stories for this to even register on the ESPN site.

This is really bizarre; why would ESPN have any vested interest in keeping Ben Rapeysberger pure?

they may have some extra info or a promise of a comment that theyre waiting on before they publish?

yeah, and none of those stories are ESPN's -- they're all links to local papers, it's just an RSS feed basically. i have no idea why they are blatantly ignoring this. schefter twittered about it but that's the closest i've seen ESPN to touching it. i mean, i dunno, same reason they sweep the favre drug addiction shit under the rug i guess?

xpost possible but at this point they look fucking retarded and i don't think they'd hold out.

according to deadspin, an "espn source" told them that they have a preexisting company policy to not report on civil cases involving athletes

that explains it - i mean as much as i would love to vilify espn for protecting their glorious (white?) rapey qb (ben's face is on sportscenters intro) - and well i already did vilify them - they pushed pretty fucking hard on like... the marvin harrison murder conspiracy or whatever that was, for instance

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/source-espn-issues-do-not-report-alert-on-roethlisberger-story/

Just for entertainment porpoises, I submitted a "why are you sitting on this story?" question on the ESPN Nation site. Live chat there is supposed to be starting momentarily.

The Super Bowl MVP's lawyer tells NBC Sports that the charges are false. "Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone, especially Andrea McNulty," said David Cornwell

lmao @ "especially"

yeah what a weird ass quote

Dear Ben,

Get a new layer.

DJP

ROFL @ Especially

wow this dude is going IN

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/too-little-too-late-from-espn-on-roethlisberger/

Too little, too late from ESPN on Roethlisberger

Posted by Mike Florio on July 21, 2009 4:23 PM ET
ESPN spokesman Mac Nwulu has provided us with a statement from the folks in Bristol regarding their decision not to mention the civil sexual assault suit against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, which to our knowledge has been ignored by every national ESPN platform.

"At this point, we are not reporting the allegations against Ben Roethlisberger because no criminal complaint has been filed," Nwulu said. "As far as we know, this is a civil lawsuit that Roethlisberger has yet to address publicly."

Actually, Roethlisberger has addressed the lawsuit publicly, via a Monday night statement from lawyer David Cornwell, who has been retained to represent Roethlisberger.

And let's be realistic about it. If he's smart (and, frankly, the jury is still out on that one), Ben won't ever comment on the case publicly, other than to say, "No comment."

Besides, we don't buy for a minute the notion that a civil claim unaccompanied by a criminal complaint makes the situation not newsworthy. Indeed, ESPN posted last night on its NFL page a blurb from the AP regarding the civil suit filed by former NFL kicker Tony Zendejas, in which he claims a violation of his civil rights in connection with, coincidentally, a rape prosecution.

In that case, have the folks who allegedly violated the civil rights of Zendejas been charged criminally? Nope. But that hasn't kept ESPN from posting the AP item.

And that's the kicker on this one -- ESPN uses stuff from the AP all the time, and the AP has issued a story about the lawsuit against Roethlisberger.

So while we appreciate the fact that ESPN provided us with a statement, we choose to regard it as a hollow attempt to explain away what appears to be a strategy for remaining in the good graces of Ben Roethlisberger.

Ben....

http://209.85.48.11/9326/75/emo/monocle.gif RAPELISBERGER http://209.85.48.11/9326/75/emo/monocle.gif ?!?!?!

"As far as we know, this is a civil lawsuit that Roethlisberger has yet to address publicly."

translation, LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA

devil's advocate: this woman could be some nutbar for all we know, the only established fact is that she has filed a suit, and there's no reason that in itself should be news - i could file a similar suit vs Ben tomorrow even though i've never met him, and it would make for a tremendous story even though the only 'news' would be that i am indeed some nutbar. if he gets done for it, write it large. but in the meantime it may not be very fair splashing around the lol rapist headlines.

so you can at least explain the stance of espn (aka the devil)

yrs, Keanu

lmao canks

she seems like a nutcase.

i do wonder if they sent some 300 lb handyman guy to fix his tv, would he have raped him as well? the world may never know.

from TMZ:

The woman accusing Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault claims she tried to tell the head of hotel security about the incident the day after it happened -- but the guy completely blew her off and threatened her job.

In her lawsuit filed last week in Nevada, Andrea McNulty claims Guy Hyder -- the chief of security at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe -- told her she was "over-reacting" and that "most girls would feel lucky to have sex with someone like Ben Roethlisberger."

McNulty also claims Hyder told her that John Koster -- the president of the hotel - will "personally fire you for starting rumors about Roethlisberger's personal life."

McNulty also claims Hyder told her that Koster would be impressed by the sexual encounter, allegedly saying "Koster would love you even more if he knew about this ... Koster would suck his d*ck if Roethlisberger let him."

In the suit, McNulty claims she assumed the incident would be investigated by hotel security, but Hyder "did not do his job of investigating the assault." McNulty also claims she was "afraid of the consequences of going to police authorities since it was obvious to her that Harrah's and it's personnel ... would side with and support Roethlisberger."

McNulty also claims several Harrah's employees broke into her home and ripped files off of her computer, presumably for the purpose of defending themselves against a possible lawsuit.

Several months after the incident -- after McNulty claims she sought psychological treatment because of the encounter -- she claims she had a conversation with Hyder. McNulty says she told Hyder that she had been hospitalized specifically because of the Roethlisberger incident. Hyder allegedly replied, "I figured that was what was wrong, but I thought it was just like a date rape thing."

McNulty claims her bosses told her she was on thin ice at work ... so she preemptively lawyered up.

McNulty is seeking $380,000 in medical fees plus an unspecified amount of punitive damages.

>>McNulty also claims several Harrah's employees broke into her home and ripped files off of her computer, presumably for the purpose of defending themselves against a possible lawsuit.<<

lawyer should have dumped this, b/c it sounds very O_o unless they have proof

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Yeah, i dunno on this one, lotsa weirdness.

"interesting" stuff coming out on the girl; seems like this could really go either way

it's very odd that he's one of NINE defendants

i didn't read closely cause honestly it's too depressing but there's some story going around about how she made up an affair with a deployed soldier or something? i don't fuckin know; shit is just too crazy.

yeah, i have zero opinion as to what actually happened, but all this crazy stuff in the periphery is probably not gonna help her too much imo

cankles getting politically correct up in here

I cannot wait for Spike Lee's Ben Roethlisberger film Doin' Rapes to come out now.

What would Marc Loi, facebook feminist, say about all of this?

damn

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4359721

so i guess the dude who marvin harrison allegedly shot (or did not shoot) was once again shot up last week while sitting in his car and is in critical condition? and a second man claims harrison shot him (in what sounds like john woo style.)

jesus wtf

harrison = scariest dude in the league (or formerly in the league as of last year i guess)

BTW FWIW RE: ESPN non-coverage of this raep story...

I don't doubt for a moment that there is a golden boy ring of safety placed around BR to protect a white QB player (and yeah, that's a little shady), but at the same time, the Duke LAX raep thing -- the jumps to conclusions, the finger-pointing in national media and the eventual dismissal and exposure of the DA on the case -- lets me sleep a little better.

sleep a little better WRT non-coverage. Obv things need to play out for more than 10 minutes before media should comment sometimes.

In a statement released by lawyer David Cornwell, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger takes a howitzer to the lawsuit filed against him alleging sexual assault.

Cornwell attaches to his statement e-mail messages sent by McNulty to the soldier that had been fabricated by the wife of a man with whom the plaintiff supposedly had been involved.

Says Cornwell: "We believe that [the plaintiff's] own words directly refute the scurrilous allegations made in her Complaint. The attached documents, containing what we believe are [the plaintiff's] own words, are merely the tip of the investigative iceberg.

"[The plaintiff] should abandon her lawsuit immediately and admit that Ben Roethlisberger did not rape her."

Per Cornwell, the plaintiff wrote two days after the alleged sexual assault that she was looking forward to having dinner with Roethlisberger and other celebrities attending the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.

Then, five months after the alleged assault, she wrote that she "would date Ben Roethlisberger" if the made-up soldier were to end their relationship.

We'll be looking over the e-mails and possibly adding more details and analysis. For now, it's clear that Cornwell and Roethlisberger are adopting a very aggressive posture. It remains to be seen whether it works.

This imaginary soldier business is weird.

"takes a howitzer to the lawsuit filed against him alleging sexual assault"
congratulations on stringing together a series of words never spoken before.

Stillers fans, jeez.

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*mandatory keep mike vick away joek*

also thats fuckin crazy

guys, i'm watching ben rofflesberger play shaq in a game of touch football and this is a thing that is actually on ABC network television?

yeah i watched that already

i wont tell u who wins tho

is it america?

;-)

actually, no.
those shaq shows are great for five minutes if you have a tivo, but at minute six you can begin to feel your eyes melt.
on the plus side, roffles DOES beat shaq at a game of horse that big aristotle claims he threw "to get in his head"

the highlight of this episode is when shaq makes an interception

from the bench!

it's like australian rules football happened there or something

Shaq boxing golden boy was some real comedy.

Golden Boy got whooped imo