Report: Steelers face six-figure fine for Roethlisberger.

NFL discipline in the Ben Roethlisberger case will include a six-figure fine for the Pittsburgh Steelers, ESPN's Adam Schefter reports.

Shefter says he has learned the behavior of Roethlisberger and former-Pittsburgh receiver Santonio Holmes will lead to a fine of about $200,000 for the team. The ESPN report says the fine won't be levied until after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decides whether to punish Roethlisberger for the behavior that led to an accusation -- but no charges -- of sexual assault.

The fine will be part of Goodell's effort to re-emphasize the importance and possible consequences of the league's conduct policy, Schefter says.


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thats a decent fine

Why would the team be fined instead of Ben? Would the Steelers just pass the fine on to him, I assume?

Terry Bradshaw's latest advice to Ben Roethlisberger: Get new handlers.

NFL Hall of Famer and four-time Super Bowl-winning QB Terry Bradshaw offered more counsel Thursday to Ben Roethlisberger, a man who once seemed poised to forever join Bradshaw as a Pittsburgh Steelers legend.

In a phone interview with NFL Network's Rich Eisen on NFL Total Access, Bradshaw said one of the next steps Big Ben needs to take to rehabilitate his tattered image is to get better public relations advisers around him while panning his public apology Monday. Said Bradshaw:

"I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. And so if he wants to talk, he needs to be real -- sound like Tiger Woods. You're gonna talk in front of the media, and you're gonna tell people how sorry you are, you have to be real. And so that would be my advice to him".

"My other advice to him would be you surrounded yourself with people to protect you since you're an elite athlete, now I would fire those people, and I'd get me some new folks because they're not doing you a very good job. You can't have 'yes' people around you".

"My other thing is stay out of bars. Get out of a college town, stay out of bars. Concentrate on your career. Your image has taken a hit, and I don't necessarily think that goes away anytime soon, anytime soon. That takes a long time. You look at Kobe Bryant, and name me a commercial that Kobe's done here in, what, two or three years? I mean, the image takes a hit ... it's just gonna take a long time -- a long time."

Bradshaw also reiterated his belief that the Steelers will cut or trade Roethlisberger if he makes one more misstep.

"There will be no tolerance from this day forward," Bradshaw said of the Rooney family.

Despite revealing a tepid (to say the least) relationship with Roethlisberger earlier in the week, Bradshaw has subsequently voiced his willingness to help him.

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I have a Feeling that He won't be in Pittsburgh this Season.

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I have a Feeling that He won't be in Pittsburgh this Season.

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thats ridiculous ... if they did that to a 2 time superbowl champ... for being a bit of a drunk... yes fine and suspend him but to trade him... Rooney will have truly gone off the deep end and become a big NUT job if he did that

Steelers to start the grooming of QB, D. Dixon, today!
Ben "Peckerhead" Roth.... to sport a chastity belt from this day forward, when out with his goon squad.