"Um, he, ah, " began the other 18-year-old, known as Alleged Victim No. 9.

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" Then he catches himself: "Um, I know the NFL doesn't like that word.

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He struggles to be a better, um, corpse.

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Um, I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason.

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"He is spreading himself too thin, " says Courtney Leddy, a vice president with Ketch um Sports Network.

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So far Bach hasn't responded to the challenge -- he has until October 31st -- which makes us think that he isn't really all that confident in his assertion, or perhaps just preoccupied with more, um, important matters.

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