According to USA Today, Santonio Holmes gets slapped with a civil suit for assault. True, it isn’t a criminal case, which could mean there was a lack of evidence to proceed there, but it’s sufficient to get the blue collar fans of the Steel City displeased. Word is star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not be participating in the team’s off-season workout program as he is facing possible criminal sexual assault charges; star wide receiver Santonio Holmes tossing his drink at Anshonoe Mills might seem minuscule by contrast, but there’s no doubt the Pittsburgh Steelers could do better without any of these distractions.
Santonio Holmes – who needs a catcher when you’re a drink thrower?
According to Anshonoe Mills, on March 7, in the VIP area of the Rain Night Club in Orlando, Florida, Santonio Holmes “ordered her to get up” off couch. Apparently the two had a musical chairs-style tussle, and according to Mills, Santonio Holmes then threw his full drink in her face and the broken glass cut her. Whether Mills paid her ER bill using instant cash loans is uncertain at this time, but she is claiming that Holmes, along with the Orlando PD, tried to get her to not press any charges. Apparently, the famed wide receiver also tried to give her an undisclosed sum of money in exchange for her silence, which could very much have prevented the have to seek help from payday lenders.
A Super Bowl XLIII MVP to a man of trouble
This isn’t the first time Santonio Holmes has been involved with the law and caused the Pittsburgh Steelers embarrassment. Holmes was charged in the past for marijuana possession; not to mention there were also the Santonio Holmes nude photos that somehow made its way into the cyber world in 2008. Of the latest alleged incident between Holmes and Anshonoe Mills, no comment has been given from the Holmes camp, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Steelers history – how will these men be viewed?
All of us know the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Rooney family have a long, storied history of success. The Rooney family is one of character, and when the on-the-field, take-no-prisoners war conducted by players like Jack Lambert was tolerated, it’s the kind of embarrassment that players like Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes have brought to the team that’s particularly exasperating.
It’s obvious how the media spotlight today is much brighter than it was throughout the Pittsburgh Steelers’ heyday of the 1970s. If TMZ and Bleacher Report had existed then, Pittsburgh fans would likely have a very different view of their sports heroes today. Neither Ben Roethlisberger nor Santonio Holmes has been convicted of late, but the air of bad decision-making plainly stinks.
