Sep 28 2006
Pittsburgh media frightened by the word “fart”
If you look at yesterday’s AP story and today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about Ben Roethlisberger’s slow start this season, you’ll notice one very interesting similarity — the media’s kneejerk reaction to a certain four-letter word that begins with the letter “F.”
“The doctors said there’s nothing wrong with my brain, but I’m having brain (cramps) out there,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s one of those things where you make mistakes and you learn from them.”
Come on, people. It’s 2006. Can a quarterback not say “farts” in plain language without getting censored? What are you afraid of? A bunch of prepubescent Steelers fans having a good giggle in pre-Algebra class? Yinzer, please.
We should all be free to call a brain fart a brain fart. We’ve all had them, and we’ve certainly seen enough brain farts on Pittsburgh’s special teams unit to last a whole season…
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“The doctors said there’s nothing wrong with my brain, but I’m having brain farts out there,” Ben Roethlisberger said about his poor start this season, after an offseason motorcycle accident in which he wasn’t wearing a helmet. But thanks to the …