Big Bonehead
Jun. 13th, 2006 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfieldPeople are wringing their hands and scrunching their brows today at the news that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been mangled in a gruesome motorcycle accident.
Let me state for the record that I like Pittsburgh as a city, and Pittsburghians (Pittsburghers?) as a people. I hold no particular grudges against the Steelers franchise, though as a Colts and erstwhile Raiders fan I probably should. I have liked Roethlisberger since before he was drafted, when I saw him profiled in an ESPN "day in the life" piece; since then he has struck me as more affable and accessible than his pretty-boy peer Tom Brady. And I have sympathy for the man's friends, teammates and family.
But I have no sympathy for Roethlisberger. I'm sorry, but any moron who rides a motorcycle without a helmet doesn't need sympathy, he needs the sharp right jab of reality. I firmly believe that any head too dumb to wear a helmet on a motorcycle probably oughtn't be preserved. Let's stop with the All-American hero worship right now, and give him what he really deserves: our pity.
Let me state for the record that I like Pittsburgh as a city, and Pittsburghians (Pittsburghers?) as a people. I hold no particular grudges against the Steelers franchise, though as a Colts and erstwhile Raiders fan I probably should. I have liked Roethlisberger since before he was drafted, when I saw him profiled in an ESPN "day in the life" piece; since then he has struck me as more affable and accessible than his pretty-boy peer Tom Brady. And I have sympathy for the man's friends, teammates and family.
But I have no sympathy for Roethlisberger. I'm sorry, but any moron who rides a motorcycle without a helmet doesn't need sympathy, he needs the sharp right jab of reality. I firmly believe that any head too dumb to wear a helmet on a motorcycle probably oughtn't be preserved. Let's stop with the All-American hero worship right now, and give him what he really deserves: our pity.
