Ben Roethlisberger is retiring after 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The quarterback made the formal announcement via a video posted on this Twitter page saying, “The journey has been exhilarating, fueled by a spirit of competition,” Roethlisberger said. “Yet the time has come to clean out my locker, hang up my cleats and continue to be all I can be to my wife and children. I retire from football a truly grateful man.”
It’s pretty apparent that fans and media members alike are going to wax nostalgic about Roethlisberger’s career considering its par for the course in U.S. professional sports discourse when someone like this retires.
Let us not forget though the utter dirtbag Big Ben more than likely is given the Quarterbacks’ ability to evade any punishment for rape accusations in more than one instance.
In 2009, Andrea McNulty, an employee of Harrah’s hotel in Lake Tahoe, accused Roethlisberger of rape, as Fox Sports reported. She alleged the assault took place in his hotel room in 2008 after he asked her to help him fix the TV. McNulty said she begged him to stop. She said she experienced depression after the assault, and she eventually entered a mental health institution.
She also accused eight fellow employees of covering up the incident. The case was settled out of court in 2012, and Roethlisberger faced no negative action from the NFL. But in 2010, Roethlisberger was in the spotlight once again.
A second sexual assault allegation surfaced, Sports Illustrated reported, this time from a college student in Milledgeville, Georgia. The 20-year-old woman claimed that Roethlisberger assaulted her in the bathroom of a nightclub. Due to a lack of evidence, Georgia prosecutors did not press charges, and the case was dropped a month later.
So, Roethlisberger ends his carer a two-time Super Bowl champion, an offensive rookie of the year in 2004, six-time Pro Bowler, and two-time evader of any penalty or relative consequence for rape accusations.
Seriously, fuck off Roethlisberger.
