Roethlisberger Attempts To Renew Classic Steelers/Cowboys Rivalry [Battle Of The Swordsmen]

Mondesishouse.com found this 4/17/2008 on deadspin.com [flag]

Perhaps he was coaxed into saying it by a sound bite-hungry Mike Tirico and Michelle Tafoya. Maybe he was just trying to make the December 7 game between the Cowboys and Steelers a little more melodramatic. Whatever the reason, Big Ben Roethlisberger, drinking champion and clumsy motorcyclist, has seemingly taken a half-hearted shot at Tony Romo and his bubble-headed lass, Jessica Simpson. ... [link]

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Published 4/17/2008 by mondesishouse at Mondesishouse.com
... --In more Nate McLouth news, here's a whole article on McLouth from SI's John Donovan. --Big Ben jokes around with Mike Tirico and Michelle Tafoya, and BAM! We've got a full-blown imagined controversy. --Nate Washington just got paid, to the tune of $1.4 million dollars. I'm convinced that this guy must be absolutely, positively BREATHTAKING in practice. ...

Shut Down The Internet, There's Cruelty A-Foot!
Published 4/30/2008 by MariusJanulisForThree at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
... or drunk Ben Rothliesberger photos and thought to yourself "What a disgrace, I shall never root for them again," well then you're probably just not wired for sports blogging and the Internet age in general and you should go read a book. If you looked at those photos and thought to yourself, "Oh right, despite the fact that they're millionaires and the NFL wants us to look at these guys as marketable, pristine bastions of good...they're really just like us, gettin' drunk on the weekend and trying to get laid...cool...," well then you're probably going to be right up our alley. ...

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Big Ben Clowns “Romo-Mexico-Jessica-Gate”

Posted 4/18/2008 on NFLJuice.com

Appearing Wednesday on The Mike Tirico Show, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger slammed Tony Romo, the Mexico Trip, and the Jessica Simpson deal. When asked about the Cowboys coming to Heinz Field on December 7, Big Biff said: I got to play at Dallas, I think it was my rookie year,” he said. “I’m glad they’re coming up here to play us. ...

Ben Roethlisberger takes jab at Cowboys and Tony Romo

Posted 4/17/2008 on The Steel Tradition

Mark your calenders for December 7th, 2008, when the Dallas Cowboys ride into Pittsburgh to face off against the Steelers at Heinz Field. That was quickly put to rest, as Roethlisberger immediately took a joking shot at Romo’s penchant for ending up in tabloids, “I’m thinking about sending an all-expenses paid trip to Tony (Romo) to go to Mexico.” When Tafoya told ...

Big Ben pokes fun at Tony Romo and the Jessica Curse

Posted 4/18/2008 on Blogging The Boys: Front Page Posts

Oh no he didn't! Seems like Ben Roethlisberger was on ESPN recently and was talking junk about Jessica Simpson. "I got to play at Dallas, I think it was my rookie year," Roethlisberger said. "I'm glad they're coming up here to play us. I'm thinking about sending an all-expenses paid trip for Tony (Romo) to go to Mexico." Tafoya shot back, "I thought you were going to bring Jessica to ...

Roethlisberger Pokes Fun at RomoJessica

Posted 4/17/2008 on FanHouse

It's been way too long since the Steelers-Cowboys rivalry has had any bite. But Ben Roethlisberger may be trying to change that. On the Mike Tirico radio show, Roethlisberger poked some fun at Tony Romo and his girlfriend, Jessica Simpson. The Dallas Morning News has the transcript. "I got to play at Dallas, I think it was my rookie year," Roethlisberger said. "I'm glad they're coming up here ...

Roethlisberger Ribs Romo

Posted 4/17/2008 on About Football

Appearing Wednesday on The Mike Tirico Show, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger fired a bit of a low blow at his Dallas Cowboys counterpart in Tony Romo regarding the whole...

BEN THROWS A ROCK FROM HIS GLASS HARLEY

Posted 4/17/2008 on ProFootballTalk.com

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger appeared Wednesday on The Mike Tirico Show. Ben hadn’t bothered to inspect the team’s schedule for the 2008 regular-season (that would require, like, reading), so Tirico and/or Michele Tafoya ran down the games for him. Informed of the December 7 visit from the Dallas Cowboys, Roethlisberger made a crack about the whole Tony [...]

Big Ben Likes Old Spice

Posted 4/16/2008 on Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

Ahoy. Big Ben is partnering with Old Spice to bring the first Old Spice Ben Roethlisberger Football Camp . They took awhile to collectively come up with that name. It'll go down in late June at Mars Area High School. Ben will be teaching football fundamentals to kids aged 7-14, with all proceeds going to the Roethlisberger Foundation. With no research, I'm going to guess that the ...

BIG BEN COULD GET HIS BIG TARGET

Posted 4/15/2008 on ProFootballTalk.com

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Is Louisville WR Mario Urrutia a sleeper pick?

Posted 4/15/2008 on The Steel Tradition

Pittsburgh welcomed in Louisville WR Mario Urrutia to their South Side facility in their ever-growing parade of draft picks. Urrutia could be a possibility as the big receiver that Ben Roethlisberger is asking for, measuring a tall 6′6″, and weighing 230 pounds. Urrutia is leaving Louisville after a rather unimpressive junior year that saw him miss 2 games due to ‘turf ...

Florio: First-round QBs still are first-rate risks

Published 4/14/2008 on SportingNews.com NFL News and Exclusive Analysis

So now that two quarterbacks from the draft class of 2004, Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger, have already won Super Bowls, it's smart to target QBs in Round 1, right? Guess again.