“I wish I could bottle it and have it forever. To see all the signs and jerseys and towels, and to hear them cheer for me coming out of the tunnel, all that stuff, I don’t know that I’ll ever put it into words. “I’ve always said they’re the best fans in all of sports, and I’ll stick by that to the day I die. “These fans and this place means so much to me and my family and always will,” Roethlisberger said.
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Steelers fans showed up, showed out and showed the NFL how to celebrate the career of their Hall of Fame quarterback that had to make 31 other fan bases jealous. It was Roethlisberger’s final game in front of the home crowd and whatever frustrations the faithful had with their quarterback since that 11-0 start a year ago were all forgiven. Whatever it was, it doesn’t matter anymore.Įven though the Steelers kept their faint playoff hopes alive with a convincing 26-14 win over the Browns, that wasn’t the story at Heinz Field on Monday night. You can say that’s just because of the passionate Steelers fans. And seriously, how many times was he booed at Heinz Field this year? Well, just a couple of weeks ago he was, and that wasn’t the first. The sports talk shows wanted him gone, the callers wanted him gone, the fans wanted him gone, even if it meant playing Mason Rudolph or Dwayne Haskins. When Eli Manning was benched for Geno Smith in 2017, there was an outcry of how the organization did him wrong, even though his skills had diminished much more than Roethlisberger’s have to this point.
What other Hall of Fame quarterback and arguably one of the best two or three players who ever pulled on a Steelers jersey over an 80-plus year history of the organization took as much criticism as Roethlisberger over the past 12 months? Probably none.
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