Steelers owner Dan Rooney declined to comment on Wednesday when asked if his team is supporting embattled QB Ben Roethlisberger. "I'm not making any comment on that," said Rooney, also the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Rooney, in his first comments since Roethlisberger was accused of sexually abusing a 20-year-old college student in Georgia, sidestepped questions about the QB: "It's being handled properly with (team president) Art (Rooney II), (coach) Mike (Tomlin) and (Steelers director of football operations) Kevin Colbert. I think they're handling it very well. The commissioner, as you know, saw Ben. I don't have any more to say." Source: USA Today
This is the problem in sports and in life in general. You don't keep backing up people that keep freaking up. They give you and your organization in this case a bad name. If you back heck ups to often you to begin to look like a giant butthole!!
yeah he's a commodity they aren't wearing BFF bracelets. no need to back him up. your boss doesn't have to like you - sorry if that hurts your feelings.
I think no comment was the right thing. Supporting him is one thing, making ongoing comments to the press about is another completely. I'm a Browns fan and I get this, if it were you, would you comment on an issue like this that you were trying to move past?
Always got to support your players? Seroiusly? Dude has been accused twice in a year with sexual assault. How about saying no he is a grown man and if he can't be a grown man than that is his problem...not mine as an owner. Big Ben is the rod...not Rooney...
So what? If you were in Rooneys position, you are paying this man MILLIONS of dollars to play for and in turn be a representative of your franchise. Which you also paid millions of dollars for. Damn right I'd be pissed if he was putting himself in situations like this, charged or not.
