I’m happy that he’s tried to grow from when he was a rookie until now. This wasn’t even for our consumption…For me, I’m happy for him that he is trying to grow. I don’t necessarily believe that we have the right to judge, to critique, to criticize, or do anything with his personal moments that weren’t for us. I’ve been married since I was 24, and you deal with things and you go through things, and when you share those things with people in ways that you want to inspire them and ways that you want them to grow and ways that you want them to connect with you, everybody doesn’t have to get that talked about on TV. And now you have to get on TV and talk about whether you expect it or if you could see this, and I’m not gonna do it.

I hate us for this, I hate myself for having to speak on a man being vulnerable, a man being human and sharing his testimony, sharing his story with those that he can inspire. I don’t really want to comment on whether it surprises me or not. I wasn’t going to talk about it, until I saw what Ryan Clark said, and that’s what I want to share here, while he appeared on NFL Live for ESPN, with Roethlisberger’s admissions as the subject of conversation. This story got covered far and wide, probably even outside of the realm of sports once it got out there. 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. But everybody else already picked it up, and there was a response to it that I wanted to share.

For another, I thought it was rather personal and sensitive in nature. For one thing, I didn’t think it was particularly significant. This was a story I wasn’t going to cover.

Some fools never learn mike ryan