Guess What Team Has A Player In Trouble Again

[(Jae)]

Bengals guard Steinbach charged with boating under the influence :rofl:

August 8, 2006
NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) -- Bengals guard Eric Steinbach was arrested and charged with boating under the influence on the Ohio River, becoming the fifth Cincinnati player in three months accused of breaking the law.
A Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources officer stopped Steinbach because he was violating an idle-only zone Saturday night, agency spokesman Mark Marraccini said.
Steinbach failed a series of field sobriety tests, Marraccini said.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-bengals-steinbach&prov=ap&type=lgns

[MileHighMagic]

Im calling bullsh*t on this one. Who isn't drinking when they are driving a boat? Still funny though.

[Atlas]

I thought drinking and boating was encouraged

[Clockwork Orange]

I think they've got enough to have their own cell block by now.

[ward63]

Gotta love them Bengals, but this is pretty bad

[Basileus777]

I think they've got enough to have their own cell block by now.
:laugh:

[bpc]

This is so damn funny. 1/7 of that roster is compiled of players with some sort of criminal record.... within the past year! Maybe they are trying to bond wearing some different stripes than bengal orange and black! I'm just waiting for Marvin Lewis to get pulled over for a dui to be the cherry on top!

[footstepsfrom#27]

This is bad ju-ju...we've had our own thugs to worry about...let's not invite fate to tap on our door with any more...

[elsid13]

Glad Lewis only draft players with character

[Garcia Bronco]

this is almost karmically justifed for that terrible ...'Who Da' song they tortured people with.


QB goes down in freak accident
WR punches coach
6 players get arrested ...all since january.

[ROYC75]

It's being reported the one test he passed was Pissin in the water ............ The lake was big enuff he couldn't miss it while swimming.

[Crushaholic]

...and yet, the one person on the Bengals who is considered a flava clown (Chad Johnson) is keeping his nose clean. Oh, the irony...Ha!

[bendog]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atRWGXzWrpj4&refer=us

oh, the irony. Palmer's acl is the achilles of a 44 yr old woman killed by DUI

[Jason in LA]

If I was a defense lawyer I'd move to Cinncy. Seems to be a lot of work out that way.

[fontaine]

If I was a defense lawyer I'd move to Cinny. Seems to be a lot of work out that way.

Yup. Marvin Lewis and Bengals are now expanding their scouting staff as well although you have to be an active Parole Officer to apply.

[azbroncfan]

I'm sure nobody on this board has driven a boat after some brews, or a vehicle for that matter.

[-Slap-]

Hilariously, the hack who wrote this article did so without the slightest trace of irony.

Bengals fans who spot bad behavior can call hotline (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/bengals/2006-08-08-fan-hotline_x.htm)

Posted 8/8/2006 10:00 AM ET

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/football/_photos/2006-08-08-bengals.jpg
Bengals fans may be keeping a
closer watch on their peers in the
stands this coming season.

By Barrett J. Brunsman, The Cincinnati Enquirer

CINCINNATI — If you act like a jerk at Paul Brown Stadium this Sunday, somebody with better manners could end up in your seat for the rest of the Bengals' home games.
All it would take is a phone call.

The football team has set up a telephone hotline — 513-381-JERK (5375) — that fans with cellphones will be able to call to report obnoxious behavior in the stands.

Those who use excessive foul language will be warned. If they persist, they risk being ejected from the game and having their season tickets and seat licenses revoked. Those who behave worse might also be arrested and jailed.

The Bengals won't target a fan who lets an expletive slip should quarterback Carson Palmer be sacked or a pass intended for wide receiver Chad Johnson be intercepted, said Bob Bedinghaus, the team's director of development for Paul Brown Stadium.

"We're not going to be the curse police. You need to understand you're coming to an NFL football game," Bedinghaus said. "On the other hand, we want to make sure that we're paying attention to those folks who are going over the line."

The stadium's 38 video cameras will enable security officials to focus on people who are reported to the jerk line.

Some of the more than 500 security and police officers who work each game will respond.

"We have more than enough cameras to zoom in on every position in the seating bowl — close enough that we can clearly get photographic images of the people sitting there," Bedinghaus said.

Beer is fueling the problem, fans have complained to team officials. It has escalated in the past three years, as more young adults have packed the stadium because of the Bengals' improved performance.

"They were complaints (of) excessive drunkenness. People that were kind of falling down drunk," Bedinghaus said. "And there were some fights last year. Whenever you put 65,000 people together, you're always going to have some fights. But there were a few more than normal."

Drunks have offended people such as Jeanie Dittrich of West Chester, Ohio, who took her son, Austin, 12, to the January playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"All he wanted for Christmas was a playoff ticket," said Dittrich, 42, a season ticket-holder who usually goes to games with her husband, Gary, 44.

Her son had never attended a game at Paul Brown Stadium.

"We told him beforehand, 'You might see some drunk people, you might hear some F-words and swearing.' But at the game, I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm going to mar my son for the rest of his life by having him come to this game.' It was so bad."

Usually, she said, people who sit near her along a goal line in the lower section don't act that way. But many of them apparently had sold their tickets — to people who were wearing Pittsburgh jerseys.

Drunk from the start

"At kickoff time, people were just sloppy drunk," Dittrich said. "I was really concerned for my son to see all this."

Security removed some people in front of them, she said. A woman next to Dittrich kept spilling beer on her. "And there was some inebriated guy next to my son. And he kept just swearing, and then he kept apologizing to him. And he helped start one of the fights."

The Bengals hope the hotline will curb such boorish behavior, as well as people who throw things in the stands or onto the field.

Bedinghaus said unruly fans have been an issue nationwide and that Paul Brown Stadium is more fan-friendly than most.

But "one thing that has been a consistent problem ... for the last three or four years is the issue of foul language at football games," Bedinghaus said.

The Bengals will notify season ticket-holders this week about the jerk line and the consequences of misbehaving. The team also plans to produce a video that will air during home games to tout the hotline.

According to the National Football League, it's up to the 32 teams to deal with unruly fans. Policies and procedures vary by stadium.

The team expects some crank calls to the jerk line.

"You can get a lot of abuse with these things," Bedinghaus said. "If you get 6,000 people calling this line — 'Hey, Ben Roethlisberger is a jerk' — then it becomes less effective. The thing to remember is we have caller ID on this line. So if you're crank calling, we are going to be able to ID who you are."

Dittrich said she and her husband will continue to go to Bengals games. While leery about taking any of her four children, she welcomes the hotline to report jerks.

"I would definitely use it if I saw cause for it," she said. "I'm glad they're rethinking the whole alcohol issue and trying to get people to be smarter about it."

[youcandoit1687]

yeah, i actually like that they were able to make it through the article without making any legal jokes.

i now count about three contributors to the team that have been in trouble during the offseason, chris henry(6 TDs last year), odell thurman, and eric steinbach who not only was a probowler but also filled in for levi jones. anybody think he will miss atleast a game for this? his backup is a rook, but he is from LSU! andrew whitworth!(dont worry he is a good guy along with fellow former tiger, bennie breazell)

[bendog]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/09/01/bc.fbn.bengals.askewlaw.ap/index.html

[Hotrod]

I thought drinking and boating was encouraged

I highly recommend it myself. Nothing like a hot day on the lake with a cold beer in hand. Of course its one thing to enjoy a cold beer its another to get so damn slober knockered you hall *** thru a no wake zone. What an idiot.

[dsmoot]

Im calling bullsh*t on this one. Who isn't drinking when they are driving a boat? Still funny though.

Until you have seen a boating or car accident in which alcohol has had an affect because someone doesn't have the self awareness to say I shouldn't be doing this, it may be still funny, but it isn't, it never is.

[Bronx33]

Drinking and boating is a givin and easy to do (if your not a moron) but if you are getting pulled over by the water cops you are doing something stupid you shouldn't be doing in a boat plain and simple.

[ol number 7]

This is so damn funny. 1/7 of that roster is compiled of players with some sort of criminal record.... within the past year! Maybe they are trying to bond wearing some different stripes than bengal orange and black! I'm just waiting for Marvin Lewis to get pulled over for a dui to be the cherry on top!

After Marvin had Ray (murder suspect) and Jamal (dough for blow) these guys are just punks. I like 'em though; at least for week one.

[ozomulsion]

Most ironic thing is that the Bengals are one of the top teams in the NFL. Chris Henry has had a steller preseason and looks to be one of the top slot WRs in the NFL. Most, and soon to be all, of his court dates are postponed until after the NFL playoffs are over. Now THAT is ironic.

[Dagmar]

Drinking and boating is a givin and easy to do (if your not a moron) but if you are getting pulled over by the water cops you are doing something stupid you shouldn't be doing in a boat plain and simple.

That's a good point.
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