Big Ben Better Be Right

There was Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger at the team's training facility earlier today, bashing a Nevada casino hostess who has brought a civil suit against the Pro Bowll signal caller. Andrea McNulty claims Roethlisberger raped her in July of last year.

Strangely, McNulty has not filed a criminal complaint against Roethlisberger, claiming that her employers wouldn't have believed her employer would side with the quarterback. To prove her point, McNulty claims she was told in March that she would take a vacation when the casino sponsored a celebrity golf tournament that Roethlisberger participated in. That event happened last week.

Let me be clear: NO woman, NO person, deserves to be sexually assaulted. Is it possible that McNulty is just going after money? Is it possible that she's "depressed" over an oppurtnity to gain money from one of this country's greatest athlrtes? You bet. Is it also possible McNultry is so traumatized by Roethlisberger that she couldn't bring the matter to light earlier. Possible, yes-though in today's world that argument doesn't hold as much water. McNultry is an adult, not a minor. Every workplace knows that inappropriate behavior is not tolerated.

Now, it's up to Roethlisberger. Today, he called the charges, "false" and "vicious." The ball is in his court. Here's hoping that he doesn't end up as another guy that Commissioner Roger Goodell has to deal with to figure out when Big Ben can play again, I'm getting tired of hearing about Pacman Jones, Plaxico Burress, Michael Vick, Dante' Stallworth, et al. For once, let's hope Big Ben the person is as exemplary as Big Ben the football player. For his sake-never mind the NFL-he better be.