Sued over alleged assault - Pittsburgh Steelers Santonio Holmes

<p>As if the Pittsburgh Steelers needed additional problems right now, USA Today reports: <a title=”Pittsburgh Steelers Santonio Holmes sued for alleged assault” href=”http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/03/29/santonio-holmes-assault-suit/”> Santonio Holmes gets slapped with a civil suit</a> for assault. True, it isn’t a criminal case, which could mean there was a lack of evidence to proceed there, but it’s enough to get the blue collar fans of the Steel City upset. Word on the street is that star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not be present at the team's off-season workout program due to a pending case against him for possible criminal sexual assault. Of course, star wide receiver Santonio Holmes' drink-throwing action on Anshonoe Mills may appear tiny in comparison, but the Pittsburgh Steelers could certain fair better without these types of distractions.</p>
<h3>Santonio Holmes passes catcher, becomes a drink thrower</h3>
<p>Anshonoe Mills is alleging that on March 7, Santonio Holmes “ordered her to get up” off a couch in the Rain Night Club in Orlando, Florida in the VIP area. 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 <a title=”Instant Cash Loans” href=”http://personalmoneystore.com/payday-loans/instant-payday-loans/instant-cash-loans/”>using instant cash loans</a> is uncertain at this time, but she is claiming that Holmes, along with the Orlando PD, attempted to get her to not press any charges. Evidently, 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 need to seek <a title=”Payday Lenders” href=”http://personalmoneystore.com/payday-lenders/loan-lenders/payday-lender/̶! 1;>help from payday lenders</a>.</p>
<h4>From Super Bowl XLIII MVP to trouble man</h4>
<p>This isn’t the first time Santonio Holmes has been involved with the law and caused the Pittsburgh Steelers embarrassment. The wide receiver has been charged with marijuana possession in the past, plus the cherry on the sundae is the Santonio Holmes nude photographs that made the rounds online in 2008. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, of the latest alleged scuffle between Holmes and Anshonoe Mills, no discussion has been released from the Holmes camp.</p>
<h4>How will these men be viewed in Steelers history?</h4>
<p>Everyone knows the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Rooney family have an considerable, storied history of success. The Rooney family is one of character, and while the on-the-field, take-no-prisoners war conducted by players like Jack Lambert was tolerated, it is off-the-field embarrassment how the likes of Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes have brought the team that is particularly galling.</p>
<p>It's obvious that 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 really 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 obviously stinks.</p>