Big Ben gets the Mike Leach Treatment

I'm no Steelers fan, and have no great love of their QB Big Ben. However, after listening to ESPN's coverage of his latest sexual misconduct allegations, a familair ring can be heard. As of 10:00AM this morning, this is what we know as fact regarding the situation. Less than a year ago Ben was accused of assaulting a young women. The police investigated the incident, and according to their investigation, no criminal worngdoing was found, and the young women was further described by police as "uncredible".

In that case, Ben was never charged with any crime, and although he was offered a settlement to make the civil charges go away, Ben is addimit he did nothing wrong, and is taking the yougn woman to civil court. 

Now in the same 12 months, Ben has been accused by a young women in Georgia of similiar misconduct. Based on preliminary investigation by police, Ben has again yet to be charged with a crime. I would add that according to ESPN, Big Ben has yet to be charged with a crime in his life.

Now it could certainly come to light after further investigation, that Ben did commit a crime. But so far nothing. yet all day yesterday, nearly every ESPN "analyst" took time out of their day to absolute lambast Big Ben. Both Steven A. Smith and Collin Cowherd went so far as to say that even if Ben is founf completely innocent of all charges, he should still be subspended by the NFL! Are you kidding me! If no wrong doing is found, they still think he shoudl be punished, but the accusation hurts the league! This is not a player who spends his offseason nights clubhoping in downtown Pittsburgh, new York or Atlanta, thus constantly putting himself ina situation for this kind of stuff. No, this is a guy who during the offseason, secludes himself away for the public eye by living in the boonies in rural Georgia. He goes to a local bar, and this happens. As of this morning, and what we know as FACT, what has NFL rule, or stateor national law has Big ben violated? The answer, none. Yet the court of ESPN, is calling for his head.

Again, more information may come to light, and at that poitn all this changes. But as of right now, Big ben knows what it feels like to be Mike Leach. This kind of rush to jusdgement for the sake of creating a ratings scandal is exactly what ESPN did to Mike Leach, and what our admin facillitated. If we needed anymore evidence that ESPN is now nothing more than a sports version of TMZ, we now have our answer. I hope for the sake of his future, Big Ben is innoncent of these accusations (not charges, because he has still yet to ever be charged), and I hope ESPN is made out to be fools in this case.......and perhaps in the future case of Mike Leach once all the facts come out.