Roethlisberger Involved In Motorcycle Accident - Page 5

Franklinnoble · 06-13-2006, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

ok maybe the crash was more like a free ride when you are already there

I think it was more like the good advice that he just didn't take.

But who would have thought?

It figures...

sachmo71 · 06-13-2006, 08:43 AM

What's the over\under on him pulling a Gary Busey and jumping back on a hog a few weeks after he is up and around, declaring that they can take his bike when they pry it from his cold, dead fingers?

Suburban Rhythm · 06-13-2006, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by RedKingGold

Maybe Hines Ward could take some snaps??

I already had a woman at work say "I bet they are mad they let that Randle El guy go now, huh?"

I hate people...

JeeberD · 06-13-2006, 10:52 AM

I hope people learn from his experience since apparently some people haven't learned from Kellen Winslow Jr and Jay Willaims' experiences...

saldana · 06-13-2006, 12:13 PM

THIS JUST IN: of course we know that Ben didnt have a helmet, but ESPN's ticker just ran by saying he doesnt have a license to drive a motorcycle either.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by saldana

THIS JUST IN: of course we know that Ben didnt have a helmet, but ESPN's ticker just ran by saying he doesnt have a license to drive a motorcycle either.

wha?!

If you have a learner's permit, you can still drive a cycle. Not at night and some other rules. Don't know specific state rules.

So, not having a license isn't that big a deal.

rkmsuf · 06-13-2006, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by saldana

THIS JUST IN: of course we know that Ben didnt have a helmet, but ESPN's ticker just ran by saying he doesnt have a license to drive a motorcycle either.

stevew · 06-13-2006, 12:19 PM

Permit was expired i believe.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 12:20 PM

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Roethlisberger had a learner's permit to operate a motorcycle that expired March 29 but had never taken the written and driving tests for a motorcycle license, a source told KDKA.

So the guys gonna get dropped from his insurance and may have to pay out of pocket for medical coverage.

Still, doesn't take away from the event and the seriousness of the main theme of Daddy Dipshit not wearing a helmet.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

GET OUT OF MY LANE, LOOK OUT FOR MY CAR.

Whoops, wrong lyrics.

Suburban Rhythm · 06-13-2006, 01:32 PM

Post Gazette reporting he will be ready to play in the opener...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06164/697867-100.stm

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 01:39 PM

I harken back to the childlike face that Mark Hamill lost after his accident. I, as well as many women across the country, hope the surgery didn't change his looks that much.

err. that didn't sound right.

rkmsuf · 06-13-2006, 01:40 PM

maybe they made him look like Tom Brady

Solecismic · 06-13-2006, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

Post Gazette reporting he will be ready to play in the opener...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06164/697867-100.stm

I wonder, with the broken jaw and all the missing teeth, if he'll have trouble enunciating?

"What was that, Ben, forty-bleah white with a moofah lavah thump?"

I always thought it would be funny if the mumble-mouth shouter guy on SNL did a skit where he was the quarterback of a football team and no one got the signals.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

maybe they made him look like Tom Brady

if that's the case, im going to buy a suzuki today!!!

TroyF · 06-13-2006, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

Post Gazette reporting he will be ready to play in the opener...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06164/697867-100.stm

I don't buy this. Ben is going to have all sorts of issues to work through in the coming months and that's if everything reported is accurate. I think people are jumping the gun on this one bigtime.

sovereignstar · 06-13-2006, 01:51 PM

Just read that Pennsylvania law requires one to wear a helmet unless they've either had a motorcycle license for two years (and are over 21) or they are over 21 and have completed a motorcycle safety course.

Edit: Okay, a further search led me to this. Nothing mentioned about needing a license.

stevew · 06-13-2006, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TroyF

I don't buy this. Ben is going to have all sorts of issues to work through in the coming months and that's if everything reported is accurate. I think people are jumping the gun on this one bigtime.

Yep, it's just the pittsburgh press trying to make a story where there isn't one, yet. They do it all the time.

Eaglesfan27 · 06-13-2006, 02:43 PM

Assuming that his jaw will be wired shut, I wonder how well he is going to maintain his playing weight.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Assuming that his jaw will be wired shut, I wonder how well he is going to maintain his playing weight.

liquid lard

FrogMan · 06-13-2006, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Assuming that his jaw will be wired shut, I wonder how well he is going to maintain his playing weight.

while I wasn't a professional athlete, I actually gained weight when I had my maxilo facial surgery and had my jaw wired shut for 5 weeks when I was 17

My mom made the most amazing energy shakes/drinks

FM

TroyF · 06-13-2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Assuming that his jaw will be wired shut, I wonder how well he is going to maintain his playing weight.

That's one of the problems I'm talking about. Overall conditioning, how the other breaks in his face heal up. Is there any "bump" or "bruise" that is worse than intitial indications made it appear? I mean, there are all sorts of issues to be making a call now on Game 1 of the season.

For now, everyone should just be thankful the guys alive and continue to hope all goes well in his recovery.

SunDevil · 06-13-2006, 02:57 PM

He might also have to wear a mask like Rip Hamilton underneath his helmet. Not to mention what kind of stress will be put on his head and face when he gets sacked and knocked to the ground. I am glad that he survived and maybe he will lead a normal life, but a normal life and a life in the NFL are very far apart in general.

AlexB · 06-13-2006, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Hurst2112

I harken back to the childlike face that Mark Hamill lost after his accident...

Whaddyaknow - learn something every day: never knew Mark Hamill had an accident like this

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 03:00 PM

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Whaddyaknow - learn something every day: never knew Mark Hamill had an accident like this

i can't remember if it was a car or bike. Thought he and billy joel were both in bike accidents.

Desmond · 06-13-2006, 03:01 PM

I believe it was former Phillies 1st Basemen Ricky Jordan who almost choked to death when, after breaking his jaw and having it wired shut, he decided to put a bunch of seafood into a blender and drink a seafood shake. Not to long after begining to sip the concoction, he realized that a seafood shake did not taste as good as he might have expected and he began to vomit into his wired shut mouth.

SunDevil · 06-13-2006, 03:03 PM

http://www.stars.handshake.de/gossip.htm

Toward the bottom of the article. BTW, pretty interesting stuff.

Exactly. But, anyway, then the accident happened around here?

No. What happened was that I was on the wrong freeway. I was way out in the sticks somewhere and there were no cars and no traffic, thank God. I was going about 65-70 mph... I was speeding, going too fast... and what happened, I think, was that I tried to negotiate an off-ramp and lost control, tumbled over, and went off the road. I fractured my nose and my cheek.

Sounds like a pretty traumatic experience.

Yes. It's such a monumental kind of thing that I can't even put it all together in my head.

FrogMan · 06-13-2006, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Desmond

I believe it was former Phillies 1st Basemen Ricky Jordan who almost choked to death when, after breaking his jaw and having it wired shut, he decided to put a bunch of seafood into a blender and drink a seafood shake. Not to long after begining to sip the concoction, he realized that a seafood shake did not taste as good as he might have expected and he began to vomit into his wired shut mouth.

quite honestly, vomiting while being wired shut was my biggest fear out of the whole thing and was always on my mind, at least in the first couple of weeks, when I was getting back to normal, recuperating from the surgery and the general aenesthesia (sp?)...

FM

SunDevil · 06-13-2006, 03:06 PM

http://www.tvguide.com/Movies/FlickC...D83730334BC%7D

And this link says motorcycle accident. Who knows

Suburban Rhythm · 06-13-2006, 03:36 PM

Press Conference at 4:00 pm...I was trying to listen on the local FSN AM station. What I got out of it was lots of jacked up stuff from the neck up. No structural damage to the knees.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-13-2006, 03:37 PM

So there was a press conference to say that HE GOT JACKED UP! Cool, I hope ESPN was there to capture that!

Suburban Rhythm · 06-13-2006, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

So there was a press conference to say that HE GOT JACKED UP! Cool, I hope ESPN was there to capture that!

You've been in SW PA long enough now to know this is the ONLY news story you'll see for the next 6 weeks!

QuikSand · 06-13-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hurst2112

i can't remember if it was a car or bike. Thought he and billy joel were both in bike accidents.

Leave that assclown out of this, please. Worse than the spoilers.

Greyroofoo · 06-13-2006, 03:43 PM

pfft about the broken jaw. If Peyton Manning can play with a broken jaw, then Roflmaoburger can too.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

Leave that assclown out of this, please. Worse than the spoilers.

fine...take a moment out of your life to come and pick up your Stormfront and River of Dreams CDs.

Hurst2112 · 06-13-2006, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

pfft about the broken jaw. If Peyton Manning can play with a broken jaw, then Roflmaoburger can too.

Roflmaoburger

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Pumpy Tudors · 06-13-2006, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

You've been in SW PA long enough now to know this is the ONLY news story you'll see for the next 6 weeks!

Sadly, this is true. I can't think of a single athlete in New Orleans who would get that kind of ongoing coverage. Not Deuce McAllister, not Chris Paul, not Aaron Bailey (arena footlol). Nobody. I mean, with Ben, I GET it, but it's just hard to imagine all this fuss because I've never seen anything like it.

saldana · 06-13-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sovereignstar

Just read that Pennsylvania law requires one to wear a helmet unless they've either had a motorcycle license for two years (and are over 21) or they are over 21 and have completed a motorcycle safety course.

Edit: Okay, a further search led me to this. Nothing mentioned about needing a license.

unless they have changed it, the law also requires a rider with a permit to be within 6 or 10 feet of another rider that does have a license...that used to be the way it was, not sure anymore.

cuervo72 · 06-13-2006, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Solecismic

I wonder, with the broken jaw and all the missing teeth, if he'll have trouble enunciating?

"What was that, Ben, forty-bleah white with a moofah lavah thump?"

I always thought it would be funny if the mumble-mouth shouter guy on SNL did a skit where he was the quarterback of a football team and no one got the signals.

The transformation into Terry Bradshaw moves closer to completion...

cuervo72 · 06-13-2006, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

Leave that assclown out of this, please. Worse than the spoilers.

Maybe the driver could have avoided Ben if he had been wearing a bright orange pair of pants.

SunDevil · 06-13-2006, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by cuervo72

The transformation into Terry Bradshaw moves closer to completion...

Well they said Ben's brain was still intact with no sustained damage, so maybe he is going for a more physical transformation, though with some of his decisions the mental transformation is only years away.

Bonegavel · 06-13-2006, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

ok maybe the crash was more like a free ride when you are already there

Ah, there we are.

kcchief19 · 06-13-2006, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

ok maybe the crash was more like a free ride when you are already there

Considering the conversations with Cowher and Bradshaw, I think this was more like the good advice that he just didn't take. Who would have thought it figures?

Joker · 06-13-2006, 10:08 PM

Suburban Rhythm · 06-14-2006, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Sadly, this is true. I can't think of a single athlete in New Orleans who would get that kind of ongoing coverage. Not Deuce McAllister, not Chris Paul, not Aaron Bailey (arena footlol). Nobody. I mean, with Ben, I GET it, but it's just hard to imagine all this fuss because I've never seen anything like it.

Yes it's big because it's Ben...but this could have been Jeff Reed, and guarantee you it STILL would have led of the evening news.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-14-2006, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

Yes it's big because it's Ben...but this could have been Jeff Reed, and guarantee you it STILL would have led of the evening news.

OK, in that case, Pittsburgh is just more interested in the Steelers than New Orleans is about any sports.

Here's the big question, though: What if it had been Rod Rutherford?

Suburban Rhythm · 06-14-2006, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

OK, in that case, Pittsburgh is just more interested in the Steelers than New Orleans is about any sports.

Here's the big question, though: What if it had been Rod Rutherford?

2nd story, after the weather. Yinzers love the weather too.

It would still be news because he is technically a Steeler, plus add in the hometown boy and Pitt factor. It would still be a huge story, and be covered from multiple angles.

stevew · 06-14-2006, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

OK, in that case, Pittsburgh is just more interested in the Steelers than New Orleans is about any sports.

Here's the big question, though: What if it had been Rod Rutherford?

I think if it were Lee Mays, everyone would have been indifferent though. Same with Barrett Brooks.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-14-2006, 08:04 AM

Ten months and I still feel like the fish out of water up here.

By the way, Lee Mays is a hell of a basketball player. Louis Lipps is even better, though.

Suburban Rhythm · 06-14-2006, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by stevew

I think if it were Lee Mays, everyone would have been indifferent though. Same with Barrett Brooks.

True...those two fall under the Kordell clause. Any mention of them is met with contempt and ridicule.

But, it would still be a story, because the stations know that use of the word Steelers in their newscast piques the interest of viewers, regardless of what they are talking about.

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sovereignstar Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004	Just read that Pennsylvania law requires one to wear a helmet unless they've either had a motorcycle license for two years (and are over 21) or they are over 21 and have completed a motorcycle safety course. Edit: Okay, a further search led me to this. Nothing mentioned about needing a license. Last edited by sovereignstar : 06-13-2006 at 01:57 PM.

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sachmo71 The boy who cried Trout Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: TX	What's the over\under on him pulling a Gary Busey and jumping back on a hog a few weeks after he is up and around, declaring that they can take his bike when they pry it from his cold, dead fingers?

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saldana Pro Starter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bethlehem, Pa	THIS JUST IN: of course we know that Ben didnt have a helmet, but ESPN's ticker just ran by saying he doesnt have a license to drive a motorcycle either.

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stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Permit was expired i believe.

06-13-2006, 01:32 PM	#211
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	Post Gazette reporting he will be ready to play in the opener... http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06164/697867-100.stm

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SunDevil College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Tempe, AZ	He might also have to wear a mask like Rip Hamilton underneath his helmet. Not to mention what kind of stress will be put on his head and face when he gets sacked and knocked to the ground. I am glad that he survived and maybe he will lead a normal life, but a normal life and a life in the NFL are very far apart in general.

06-13-2006, 03:01 PM	#226
Desmond Banned Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: The Hatch	I believe it was former Phillies 1st Basemen Ricky Jordan who almost choked to death when, after breaking his jaw and having it wired shut, he decided to put a bunch of seafood into a blender and drink a seafood shake. Not to long after begining to sip the concoction, he realized that a seafood shake did not taste as good as he might have expected and he began to vomit into his wired shut mouth.

06-13-2006, 03:03 PM	#227
SunDevil College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Tempe, AZ	http://www.stars.handshake.de/gossip.htm Toward the bottom of the article. BTW, pretty interesting stuff. Exactly. But, anyway, then the accident happened around here? No. What happened was that I was on the wrong freeway. I was way out in the sticks somewhere and there were no cars and no traffic, thank God. I was going about 65-70 mph... I was speeding, going too fast... and what happened, I think, was that I tried to negotiate an off-ramp and lost control, tumbled over, and went off the road. I fractured my nose and my cheek. Sounds like a pretty traumatic experience. Yes. It's such a monumental kind of thing that I can't even put it all together in my head.

06-13-2006, 03:06 PM	#229
SunDevil College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Tempe, AZ	http://www.tvguide.com/Movies/FlickC...D83730334BC%7D And this link says motorcycle accident. Who knows

06-13-2006, 03:36 PM	#230
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	Press Conference at 4:00 pm...I was trying to listen on the local FSN AM station. What I got out of it was lots of jacked up stuff from the neck up. No structural damage to the knees.

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Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	So there was a press conference to say that HE GOT JACKED UP! Cool, I hope ESPN was there to capture that! __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

06-13-2006, 03:43 PM	#234
Greyroofoo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alabama	pfft about the broken jaw. If Peyton Manning can play with a broken jaw, then Roflmaoburger can too.

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Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	Ten months and I still feel like the fish out of water up here. By the way, Lee Mays is a hell of a basketball player. Louis Lipps is even better, though. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. Last edited by Pumpy Tudors : 06-14-2006 at 08:05 AM.

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