Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Actually, you're wrong on Vick there felt....

Vick wasn't suspended until after he got a plea agreement as it says in this article:

[url="http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/"]http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/[/url]

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Actually, you're wrong on Vick there felt....

Vick wasn't suspended until after he got a plea agreement as it says in this article:

[url="http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/"]http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/[/url]

You don't say?

Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the Atlanta Falcons quarterback indefinitely without pay, just hours after Vick filed a plea agreement that portrayed him as less involved than three co-defendants and guilty mainly of poor judgment for associating with them.

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Actually, you're wrong on Vick there felt....

Vick wasn't suspended until after he got a plea agreement as it says in this article:

[url="http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/"]http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/[/url]

OK.. I can admit when I'm wrong, what about PacMan and Koren Robinson?

I'm pretty sure Goodell has suspended players before a conviction.

I doubt Ben was the first.

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Robinson was suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy. There is no alleged involved with that. He failed a test.

[url="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2629860"]http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2629860[/url]

Jones was suspended for the 2007 season for the following:

Before getting traded to Dallas in April, the cornerback was arrested six times and involved in 12 instances requiring police intervention after Tennessee drafted him in the first round in 2005.

Tennessee got a fourth-round pick from the Cowboys in the April draft and was supposed to get a sixth-rounder next year for Jones. But because Jones has been suspended again, Dallas is instead expected to get the Titans' fifth-round pick next April.

Jones was an elite cornerback and kick returner in his first two seasons with the Titans, but the accumulation of arrests and legal problems, including his connection to a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club, led to his suspension without pay in April 2007.

More trouble followed, including felony charges related to the strip-club shooting that left a bouncer paralyzed. There was also a $20,000 debt repaid to a Las Vegas casino after a felony theft warrant was threatened.

[url="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3643240"]http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3643240[/url]

Pacman's rap sheet, including charges brought before he was ever suspended.

[url="http://bumpsports.blogspot.com/2007/03/pacman-jones-criminal-rap-sheet.html"]http://bumpsports.blogspot.com/2007/03/ ... sheet.html[/url]

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Actually, you're wrong on Vick there felt....

Vick wasn't suspended until after he got a plea agreement as it says in this article:

[url="http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/"]http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20429109/[/url]

OK.. I can admit when I'm wrong, what about PacMan and Koren Robinson?

I'm pretty sure Goodell has suspended players before a conviction.

I doubt Ben was the first.

Convictions ... yes. Arrests ... NO. That is the difference. Not only has Ben never been convicted he also has never even been charged!!

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Re: Steelers defend Roethlisberger's right 'to make right'

Ben is definitely the first to be suspended without a charge as far as I know. Convictions... not sure about that.

I think Goodell punishes repeat behavior that gets negative media attention regardless of charges or convicions. I'm sure Ben was warned due to the civil trial... If Ben had a DUI or was in a bar fight I doubt the punishment would be so harsh.