This was a story I wasn’t going to cover. For one thing, I didn’t think it was particularly significant. For another, I thought it was rather personal and sensitive in nature. But everybody else already picked it up, and there was a response to it that I wanted to share.
I’m sure very few of you watched the ManUp event recently in which Ben Roethlisberger participated, but you’ve probably seen the articles from other outlets in which he acknowledged, while speaking about his relationship with his religion, that he has experienced battles with addition to alcohol and pornography, or at least what he would classify as addictions relative to his interpretations of the teachings of his faith.