One of ESPN’s headline tabs reads Report: Roethlisberger denies sex to police.
Really?
With all the intelligent people at ESPN, no one thought maybe this could be phrased differently? I don’t care that it’s grammatically correct, because it still sounds like something it’s not. I feel like I’m reading The Onion.
Don’t get me wrong, the headline is great. It’s hilarious. But If I was the one who wrote it and my boss called me into his office because of it, I probably wouldn’t think it was so hilarious.
But maybe after I was fired, I could finally laugh about the hazy image of police offers pleading a drunken, bearded Ben Roethlisberger for his sex, only to be shamelessly turned down by the quarterback.
Then, I would think to myself “Hey, that’s hilarious. I wrote that.”
(Update! 12 hours later and ESPN has changed the headline to Report: Roethlisberger denies sex occurred)
