Roethlisberger Party Dubbed ‘Ben-a-Palooza’

Roethlisberger Party Dubbed ‘Ben-a-Palooza’
Posted 3/14/2010 6:00 AM by TMZ Staff
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Most of Ben Roethlisberger’s ill-fated party weekend was thoroughly planned out weeks in advance — minus the whole alleged sexual assault part — and TMZ has learned the festivities even had a name … “Ben-a-Palooza.” The Palooza is a tradition that Ben and his pals have put together for the past several years — in which the Steelers quarterback and a group of his friends celebrate Ben’s birthday together. This year, Ben-a-Palooza began at Roethlisberger’s home near Pittsburgh, where the group — pictured above wearing customized Palooza shirts — boarded a party bus bound for Ben’s lake house in Georgia. After the bus arrived to the home, several members spent one of the nights on a bar crawl in Milledgeville — where Ben was later accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman in a nightclub bathroom. Nothing spoils a Palooza like a criminal investigation.