Roethlisberger may be gone sooner than anyone thinks

Now that the District Attorney’s papers, files and investigation have been made public, I believe Ben Roethlisberger will not be playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers when the 2010 NFL season kicks off.

Yesterday after work, one of my coworkers seemed pretty convinced the Steelers would be getting rid of Big Big sooner than later. I had pretty much convinced myself that they’d be getting rid of him after the season. But the more details come out, the more tawdry and ridiculous the whole situation seems. What the hell is Roethlisberger doing buying underage girls shots and then trying to mack down on them? Clearly his entourage were acting like roadies for some 70’s rock band, gathering girls to be brought backstage for sexual favors. There’s also now been multiple recent allegations, including his most recent accuser, of Roethlisberger exposing himself to women as a way of coming on to them. (If this is true, I’m guessing he has a penis he’s pretty proud of.)

The bottom line is, this story isn’t going away any time soon. Ben tried to make amends during his press conference but I don’t think people wanted to hear about he was going to channel his energy into making sure his game is on the highest level. There’s something much more real world going on here and it seems he’s simply too removed, dim or simply privileged to understand it. It’s going to be something that all his teammates and Steeler officials will have to comment on again and again and again.That spells doom. There hasn’t been any team I can remember who has had to deal with a controversy of such a scale and still had a great season.

Besides all the recent allegations revealed in the District Attorney’s report, this is also the same guy who was alleged to have sexually assaulted another young woman a year ago and was also unrepentant about getting into a major motorcycle accident without wearing a helmet.

The Steelers are old school. That’s not to say they don’t look the other way with certain players who misbehave. They have, much like most NFL teams with needs on the field. But in the TMZ era, this is just more than an organization led by the Rooney family is willing to tolerate.

Assuming they get any kind of decent offer for a trade – and there’s always going to be demand for a young quarterback who has won two Super Bowls – I think he’s going to be gone. You heard it here first…