Thursday, October 27, 2005
Teammate Interruptus
It was a good scam while it lasted--OK, it was a lame scam but I've got to respect his moxie. Looking to cash in romantically on Pittsburgh's obsession with its Steelers, local loveless no-good-nik Brian Jackson had some success impersonating Black-and-Gold quarterbacks Ben "Big Ben" Roethlisberger and Brian "4th-String-Taxi-Squad" St. Pierre. It worked for a while until the young lady he set his sports-jaundiced eye upon got wise and Jackson was arrested. His biggest mistake? According to reports Jackson, "told the woman to watch Steelers games so she could see him when he went into the game, police said. When the woman did watch a Steelers game, she saw the real Brian St. Pierre on the screen and realized that Jackson was an impostor, police said. Jackson tried to explain to the woman that he looked "different" on TV, but she asked him not to contact her, police said."
Despite blogosphere mockery of choosing to be St. Pierre, I think he was right. I mean, Big Ben is on TV every week, not to mention in the papers, advertisements, and on magazine covers, countless signs and billboards in Western Pennsylvania. Who the hell could pick St. Pierre out of a line-up? Probably not even Bill Cowher.
And to think, if he had only kept her away from the TV for those few preseason appearances, she'd probably still be dating a "real" Steeler.
It was a good scam while it lasted--OK, it was a lame scam but I've got to respect his moxie. Looking to cash in romantically on Pittsburgh's obsession with its Steelers, local loveless no-good-nik Brian Jackson had some success impersonating Black-and-Gold quarterbacks Ben "Big Ben" Roethlisberger and Brian "4th-String-Taxi-Squad" St. Pierre. It worked for a while until the young lady he set his sports-jaundiced eye upon got wise and Jackson was arrested. His biggest mistake? According to reports Jackson, "told the woman to watch Steelers games so she could see him when he went into the game, police said. When the woman did watch a Steelers game, she saw the real Brian St. Pierre on the screen and realized that Jackson was an impostor, police said. Jackson tried to explain to the woman that he looked "different" on TV, but she asked him not to contact her, police said."
Despite blogosphere mockery of choosing to be St. Pierre, I think he was right. I mean, Big Ben is on TV every week, not to mention in the papers, advertisements, and on magazine covers, countless signs and billboards in Western Pennsylvania. Who the hell could pick St. Pierre out of a line-up? Probably not even Bill Cowher.
And to think, if he had only kept her away from the TV for those few preseason appearances, she'd probably still be dating a "real" Steeler.
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