You can bet that Steelers coach Bill Cowher isn't happy right now. He told Ben Roethlisberger to park his motorcycle last summer, but the 24-year-old quarterback basically told his coach, "Hey, this is a free country and I'm doing what I want to do."
As I write this, Roethlisberger is having surgery on a broken jaw after flying off his motorcycle Monday morning when his bike collided with a car near the 10th Street Bridge in Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger, who wasn't wearing a helmet, hit the car's windshield and opened a large gash on his forehead. His injuries are serious, but not considered life-threatening.
FOX's Terry Bradshaw also told Roethlisberger to "park the bike" on national television last season, apparently upsetting Roethlisberger in the porcess.
"I don't want to get into what I said, I just hope the kid is going to be all right," Bradshaw said today after hearing the news of the accident. "That sounds tough. It's too bad. I pray he's going to be OK."