Pittsburgh Steelers , wo n't appeal six - game suspension . `` Missing games will be devastating for me , '' Roethlisberger said in a statement issued through the team . Ben Roethlisberger also apologizes to his mother and his wife . Woman had accused him of raping her in a Milledgeville , Georgia , bar . DA on not guilty charges : ` ` We do not prosecute morals . We prosecute facts . ''
Pittsburgh Steelers , wo n't appeal six - game suspension . Ben Roethlisberger also apologizes to his mother and his wife . Woman had accused him of raping her in a Milledgeville , Georgia , bar . DA on not guilty charges : ` ` We do not prosecute morals . We prosecute facts . ''