One can only guess at this point in time why Oakland Raiders defensive-end Richard Seymour decided to punch Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Sunday during Pittsburgh's 35-3 win. The best ones:
1) Pittsburgh was winning 21-3 at the time.
2) Perhaps more importantly, Oakland was losing 21-3.
3) Roethlisberger touched him and he don't like being touched... which completely explains his need to pursue a career in football which is like 95% accidental touching of your opponents' private parts while trying to tackle them to the ground. The other 5%? Not-so-accidental touching while in a scrum.
4) Seymour mistook Roethlisberger for New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, apparently not yet having gotten over being traded to Oakland last season.
5) Roethlisberger made some wise crack about having just scored and Seymour thought he was talking about his sister; you never really know with Roethlisberger.
All that being said, in their post-game interviews, all Roethlisberger and head coach Mike Tomlin could do was talk about how much respect they had for Seymour, which is classy to say the least under such strained circumstances, but still makes one wonder if maybe Seymour threatened each of them with further physical abuse if they bad-mouthed him to the press, right after he stole their lunch money. What is for sure is that Seymour will at least get fined by the NFL this week. What is still uncertain (aside from the actual reason for the punch)? Why it took up until now for someone to punch Roethlisberger, when clearly he's had it coming for some time.
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