Dan Rooney's Legacy Gets A Black Eye

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There Are Right Reasons, And Wrong Reasons, To Slap A Lady, Apparently [Slap]
Published 3/24/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... an 1 a.m. argument. Harrison was not kicked off the team. Just a few days later, though, wide receiver Cedrick Wilson was released by the team after being arraigned for hitting his estranged girlfriend. (She claims the incident was misconstrued, that he only "shoved" her.) So what's the difference between the two? Not that Harrison is valuable and Wilson' isn't, nope, says chairman Dan Rooney. It's all about intent. Rooney says the Harrison arrest is different because he had a perfectly reasonable excuse for hitting her. Really. "I know many ...

Lord, Give Me Strength To Slap This Ho In The Mouth….Amen
Published 3/25/2008 by Chuck at Sportaphile
... was doing and how the incident occurred, what he was trying to do was really well worth it,” he said of Mr. Harrison’s initial intent with his son. “He was doing something that was good, wanted to take his son to get baptized where he lived and things like that. She said she didn’t want to do it.” LOL. It’s amazing what people will condone in the name of religion. **coughcough9/11.Iraq.etc.coughcough** [Lion In Oil] ...

Ben Roethlisberger could murder a dozen infants and be just fine
Published 3/25/2008 at Shutdown Corner
... But I'd find it easy to believe that he's less than 100% sensitive when it comes to women's issues, and he certainly wouldn't be alone in that, in the NFL or in the world.  He did backpedal a bit, said the Steelers don't condone domestic violence in any way, and that such incidents would be handled on a case-by-case basis. You know the weird thing about this? If the Steelers had kept Cedric Wilson, too, no one would have said one word. • Dan Rooney's Legacy Gets A Black Eye / Lion in Oil • Steelers slogan: 'One ...