Super Bowl XLIII Running Thread

Two Super Bowls, four playoff appearances in 5 years.
If you think he's vastly mediocre, you either have never watched him play or you know nothing about the game we call football.
Your choice.

 

There's that stuff again. This isn't tennis.

It is hooey, it is guff, it is buncombe, it is horseshit, it needs to go.

 

Did Ben kick your dog, Junkie?

 

"Big Ben" and his defenders made a bigger deal out of an appendix laparoscopy than anyone ever has. Sure, it's painful, and you have holes way too close to the privates, and you walk like a duck for about three or four days, but it isn't a huge thing.

 

For the record, they won in spite of Roethlisberger's passing in 05, but he scored a rushing touchdown and threw an essential block on Randle-El's pass to Ward. Maybe 3 QBs in the NFL would have stuck their heads in the way he did.
And in the Indianapolis and Denver games on the way to Super Bowl XL, he dominated, throwing 7 touchdowns and making the tackle that saved their behinds.

 

Yeah, that's convenient.
So what say you about Greg Maddux's 360-some victories?

 

Do you have to blindly grasp onto any possible avenue to attack the guy as part of your never-ending quest to tweak Steelers' fans as much as possible?

There is no new information in that story you posted. They have a quote from a PR guy who dodged the question, a quote from Tomlin from before the Super Bowl. The part about the "broken toes" is the only thing that is at all compelling in that story, and that is very old news.

LJB, who here made a big deal out of an appendix laparoscopy?

 

You're stretching. There's no congruency at all.

You just said they won in spite of him in XL. That would indicate he doesn't deserve any kind of mark in his "win column."

Team sport, all that. This "he's x-x in the postseason" is such lazy shit.

 

You did, most likely. No, I don't know about this board. His lousy season that year was blamed on the motorcycle accident and his appendicitis, and not shitty play. The laparoscopy didn't seem to throw off Roy Halladay after he went down with the same thing.

 

You mean the touchdown he never got in on?

 

Yes, there's that.

A mere oversight.

 

Come on, LJB. That's lazy. If you're going to accuse somebody of something on the board, please show your work.

The comparison to Halladay is foolish, or did I miss the part about him also breaking bones in his face among other injuries in a motorcycle accident a few months before his appendectomy, too? Also, I don't remember any 300-pound guys knocking Halladay down while he tried to pitch. Compltely different situations.

The only thing we can be sure of regarding '06 is Roethlisberger stunk most of the year. How much of that was due to the motorcycle accident is pure speculation. The appendectomy was simply a set-back in his recovery.