TREY SAY: Sex scandals in the sports world are not rare. Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, and other sports superstars have dealt with the wrath of fans and the media due to their indiscretions.  Recently, another sex scandal involving a superstar athlete hit the airwaves involving the two-time Superbowl winning Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger.  And yes, I have an opinion on it (don’t I always?)

For those of you who don’t follow or care about sports, let me give you a brief overview of what happened here:  Last month, Ben and a few of his buddies went out to a college bar to have a few drinks.  During the course of the night he met a 20-year old girl and allegedly raped her in the bar’s bathroom.  If you want more details, I’d suggest visiting “The Smoking Gun” website and you’ll find out all that you need to know (and probably a lot more).

I have a couple of problems with this whole thing (besides the alleged rape, of course), and I’ll lay them out right now:

Problem #1: You’re Ben f*cking Roethlisberger! Why the hell are you in a college bar trying to get ass?  A college bar?? Really? You’re worth many million dollars, and the best you can do is hit on chicks who think Vampire Diaries is quality television?  Do you think Peyton Manning, Donovan McNabb, or Tom Brady would be caught dead drinking with teenagers?  How stupid are you?  You’re practically 30 years old, for Pete’s sake.  You know what other famous athletes and celebrities do when they want to get laid?  They’ll either hire, um… “professionals,” or they’ll spit some friendly game to women in their age bracket.  And by “friendly game,” I mean the most rudimentary bullsh*t you could possibly say to a woman.  When you’re a rich celebrity, you can pull out pickup lines like, “what’s your sign?” or “do you come here often?” and you’ll get almost any morally-casual woman to sleep with you.  For example:

RICH CELEBRITY: Hi there, toots.

HOT WOMAN:  Hi!

RICH CELEBRITY: Did you know that I also work for the IRS?

HOT WOMAN: No, really?

RICH CELEBRITY: Yep, because I plan to tax that ass all night long, baby!

HOT WOMAN:  I’m so hot for you right now…

RICH CELEBRITY: I know.

It’s just that simple. Anyway, I can promise you that most rich celebrities wouldn’t go trolling for chicks who can’t legally drink alcohol.  Remember, this is the same dude who had a civil suit against him for sexual misconduct, and almost killed himself because he crashed his motorcycle without wearing a helmet. It’s safe to say that he will not be invited to any Mensa conferences in the immediate future (unless the members are looking to conduct a case study on how stupid people can be).

Problem #2:  We’ve established that Ben is a complete idiot, but unfortunately there are thousands of idiotic sports fans who support this guy.  If you happen to visit internet message boards, you’ll find that the support themes fall into one of these categories (which I can refute without breaking a sweat):

She probably just wants to be famous, and is using Ben to do it:  Yeah, because I sure as hell can’t think of a better way to become famous than to have your name dragged through the mud and have all of your intimate details plastered all over TV and the internet – all while receiving death threats from mouth-breathing Steelers fans.

He’s not guilty of a crime, so give him a break: True, but let’s be real for a minute:  In my opinion, I believe that the only reason the charges were dropped was because the accuser didn’t want to deal with the humiliation and public spectacle that a trial would bring – and unfortunately that’s the case with many alleged rape victims. So just because he’s not standing in front of a judge and jury doesn’t mean that he’s not guilty.  Personally, I think that everything in that police report is true, and I believe that a crime was committed – but hey, that’s just one guy’s opinion.  It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident, but he was accused by another woman of sexual misconduct about a year ago…so I can’t help but think there’s something to this.

There is another thing that bothers me, and that’s the racial aspect to it. I could write a separate column on that, but I’ll refrain from doing so.  I’m not saying that Ben is getting a free ride here, but I’m shocked by the amount of apologists out there supporting this clown and his behavior.  All I’ll say about it is if this happened to LeBron James (a superstar black athlete with NO criminal record), he’d get absolutely murdered in the court of public opinion.

So here’s my advice for you, Big Ben: Stay out of college bars, stop allegedly forcing women to have sex with your dumb ass, work on your game so you can get the Steelers back to the playoffs, and most importantly – start becoming the role-model for young kids that the NFL expects you to be.  If you don’t follow my advice, there’s a good chance that a proud organization like the Steelers will ship you off to NFL purgatory (otherwise known as the Oakland Raiders), or worse – you’ll find yourself in prison.  Let us know how that one works out for you.