Posted on 06/12/2006 11:22:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steelers star Ben Roethlisberger, the youngest quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl championship, broke his jaw and nose in a motorcycle crash Monday in which he was not wearing a helmet.
Four doctors operated on Roethlisberger for seven hours to treat multiple facial fractures and "all of the fractures were successfully repaired," Dr. Harry W. Sell, chairman of the surgery department at Mercy Hospital, told reporters late Monday night.
Dr. Daniel Pituch, who led the team, said Roethlisberger was in serious but stable condition, and doctors were aware of no other serious injuries.
"His brain, spine, chest and abdomen appear to be without serious injury and there are no other confirmed injuries at this time," he said.
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Very true.........
;-)
So, did Ben lie on the shows. How was he immature, as you suggested?
I'm just wondering.
p.s. Yeh, we are old. ;-)
Time to get some sleep.
;-) Damn, I'm almot 60........ I guess I'm an old man.
;-)
that sounds like a great idea, g-nite all
I had a very minor motorcycle accident and I mentioned to a friend that it ruined a $500 Arai helmet. His reply, "Five hundred dollars! Five hundred dollars! The value all the helmets in our Harley club doesn't total five hundred dollars!"
one idiot away from eternity.
My old (ex)Marine Drill Sargent high school swimming coach said NO motorcycles to our team, and that was back in 1963. But, we had a really great swimming team he was trying to protect. One guy was on the Olympic swimming team in '64 and '68.
Precisely.
And in this guy's case, one idiot away from not only a potentially ruined career, but also from a championship team chaotically careening into a disrupted season.
God help Roethlisberger. And the Steelers.
A friend sent me some pics of the bike but I don't know how to post them. If you (or anyone else) FReepmails me an email address I can forward them to you to post them.
If he had a helmet with a shield it might have fragmented upon impact and the shrapnel could have blinded or killed him . I rode cycles before the law was passed making it mandatory to wear a helmet .I still wore one . A big beetle or bug in the eye at 65 mph is like getting hit with a rock
Yeah, but you must be near the 401K or 403B draw without a penalty if you have one !
Never drive a rice rocket without a helmet!
I remember during an annual helmet law protest in the DC area the news media reported something to the effect of...
"Motorcycle helmet law protester crashes, but helmet saved his life".
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Mp> Hope this works, my usual and usually dependable web server that hosts my stuff jsut went dow. First time for years!
I used a backup site - ww1.pureupload.com I've used for some other pics. SO far they've been really good.
See Yunz Badray! Gonn hafta jump in on the FR pa locality board, but you and smokeyb seem to be taking care of RINO's pretty good!
prisoner6
With the protection of the full face helmet's rigid framework around it, the polycarbonate shield is unlikely to catch a deep enough blow to shatter it, and even when it does that's usually preferable to having the impacting object hit right in the face.
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