Comments on: Ben Roethlisberger Injury Update – Shoulder | Steelers Beat Redskins on MNF http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/ A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Not Impressed http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-3144 Not Impressed Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:26:32 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-3144 The energy that the entire team gets when Byron Leftwich comes into the game is on a different level. The offensive line actually plays better. I don’t think the line likes Ben. I can’t say that I blame them. He is very arrogant. My preference would be to see Byron instead of Ben. I hope that Coach Tomlin doesn’t live to regret Ben starting because he gets off to a less than stellar start. Ben has not been the same since his accident. I only wish that hadn’t happened to him. He was awesome before that. Our line hasn’t been the same since Grimm left. He was an awesome line coach and the Steelers should have done everything in their power to retain his services. I still think the Steelers can win, but my hope is that Ben is up to the task on Sunday. The energy that the entire team gets when Byron Leftwich comes into the game is on a different level. The offensive line actually plays better. I don’t think the line likes Ben. I can’t say that I blame them. He is very arrogant. My preference would be to see Byron instead of Ben. I hope that Coach Tomlin doesn’t live to regret Ben starting because he gets off to a less than stellar start. Ben has not been the same since his accident. I only wish that hadn’t happened to him. He was awesome before that. Our line hasn’t been the same since Grimm left. He was an awesome line coach and the Steelers should have done everything in their power to retain his services. I still think the Steelers can win, but my hope is that Ben is up to the task on Sunday.

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]]> By: Much Needed Reality Check http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1431 Much Needed Reality Check Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:03:02 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1431 Rusty, Rusty... look I know you're ticked that Steeler fans have been proven now as the top fan base you Clevelanders CLAIM to be, but this has to take the cake. First, those articles SUGGEST not prove anything. Second, it was an ACCIDENT caused by someone -- Redskin fan or Steeler fan -- leaving on a tailgate grill during the game. Not the intentional "burn baby burn!" kind of thing you're making it out to be. Tsk tsk. You've hit a new low Rusty. And considering you're from Cleveland, that's saying something. Of course, you would be the expert on big things burning, given the Cuyahoga River and all. Rusty, Rusty… look I know you’re ticked that Steeler fans have been proven now as the top fan base you Clevelanders CLAIM to be, but this has to take the cake.

First, those articles SUGGEST not prove anything. Second, it was an ACCIDENT caused by someone — Redskin fan or Steeler fan — leaving on a tailgate grill during the game. Not the intentional “burn baby burn!” kind of thing you’re making it out to be.

Tsk tsk. You’ve hit a new low Rusty. And considering you’re from Cleveland, that’s saying something.

Of course, you would be the expert on big things burning, given the Cuyahoga River and all.

]]> By: Ryan Russell http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1429 Ryan Russell Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:19:24 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1429 MNRC, Here are FIVE different links to articles that suggest Steelers fans set fire to cars in Washington on November 3rd. If you think that your "fanbase" is anything but white trash coal miners, you are as stupid as your posts. http://ballhype.com/story/steelers_fans_cannot_control_their_fire/ http://mboard.steelers.com/fanzone/mboard/news/77631 http://www.deuceofdavenport.com/2008/11/steelers-fans-cannot-control-their-fire.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/04/ST2008110401293.html http://forum.colts.com/showthread.php?s=89deb88579beb43207f75e9b389c320e&p=710164#post710164 MNRC,

Here are FIVE different links to articles that suggest Steelers fans set fire to cars in Washington on November 3rd. If you think that your “fanbase” is anything but white trash coal miners, you are as stupid as your posts.

http://ballhype.com/story/steelers_fans_cannot_control_their_fire/

http://mboard.steelers.com/fanzone/mboard/news/77631

http://www.deuceofdavenport.com/2008/11/steelers-fans-cannot-control-their-fire.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/04/ST2008110401293.html

http://forum.colts.com/showthread.php?s=89deb88579beb43207f75e9b389c320e&p=710164#post710164

]]> By: Much Needed Reality Check http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1332 Much Needed Reality Check Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:38 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2008/11/ben-roethlisberger-injury-update-shoulder-steelers-beat-redskins-on-mnf/#comment-1332 Big Ben will be fine. Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing him sit a game and heal a little more, God knows most QBs wouldn't have been tough enough to absorb this kind of punishment all year. But hey -- that's the kind of luxury you have when you're 6-2 and sitting all pretty on top of the division. (Why, not even Rusty's prediction the Steelers would be what, 4-5 by game 9 could prevent it -- go figure!) In the meantime, I'll leave you chumps with a little gift courtesy of the #1 fan base in football: "We actually went silent count one or two times out there," Chris Samuels said. "I mean, Jason called it so we had to basically obey it." Wait, that was the home team? Using a silent count? Because of the noise from fans rallying behind their defense? "Uh huh," said Pete Kendall, who said that had happened to him elsewhere but admitted he was a tad surprised last night. "I mean, that's not the reputation or the expectation I had of the fans here," he said, "but who am I to begrudge somebody from making a profit by selling their tickets? I'm playing for money, and they're watching, and it's their right to do what they want with their tickets." How many Steelers fans were there last night? Unclear. A lot. Enough that, after walking from the parking lot to the press box, everyone was talking about it, hours before kickoff. Enough that when Antwaan Randle El ran out before the game, the boos were obvious. Enough that, in the final minutes, when Pittsburgh got an interception, a writer who couldn't see the play guessed that something bad must have happened to Washington, judging by the roar of the crowd. My original guess was 15 percent, but I was mocked for going too low. Was it 20 percent? Was it 25 percent? Some writers guessed as high as 30, and the Washington Times went with 33 percent, although I still say that's way too high. Your guess on the percentage? Link: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcs...skins_int.html Big Ben will be fine. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing him sit a game and heal a little more, God knows most QBs wouldn’t have been tough enough to absorb this kind of punishment all year. But hey — that’s the kind of luxury you have when you’re 6-2 and sitting all pretty on top of the division. (Why, not even Rusty’s prediction the Steelers would be what, 4-5 by game 9 could prevent it — go figure!)

In the meantime, I’ll leave you chumps with a little gift courtesy of the #1 fan base in football:

“We actually went silent count one or two times out there,” Chris Samuels said. “I mean, Jason called it so we had to basically obey it.”

Wait, that was the home team? Using a silent count? Because of the noise from fans rallying behind their defense?

“Uh huh,” said Pete Kendall, who said that had happened to him elsewhere but admitted he was a tad surprised last night. “I mean, that’s not the reputation or the expectation I had of the fans here,” he said, “but who am I to begrudge somebody from making a profit by selling their tickets? I’m playing for money, and they’re watching, and it’s their right to do what they want with their tickets.”

How many Steelers fans were there last night? Unclear. A lot. Enough that, after walking from the parking lot to the press box, everyone was talking about it, hours before kickoff. Enough that when Antwaan Randle El ran out before the game, the boos were obvious. Enough that, in the final minutes, when Pittsburgh got an interception, a writer who couldn’t see the play guessed that something bad must have happened to Washington, judging by the roar of the crowd.

My original guess was 15 percent, but I was mocked for going too low. Was it 20 percent? Was it 25 percent? Some writers guessed as high as 30, and the Washington Times went with 33 percent, although I still say that’s way too high. Your guess on the percentage?

Link: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcs…skins_int.html

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