Ben Roethlisberger: Has announced his retirement| Is retiring

Ben Todd Roethlisberger Sr., nicknamed “Big Ben”, is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He played college football at Miami University and was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft.

Ben Roethlisberger: Has announced his retirement| Is retiring

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Fellow Steelers captains Cam Heyward and Derek Watt would normally flank the quarterback on the walk to the coin toss, but the pair stopped short, letting Roethlisberger go ahead without them.

When Roethlisberger realized what was happening, he playfully swatted at them, but they continued to hang back. Roethlisberger kept walking, until he stood by himself at midfield for potentially the final coin toss at Heinz Field of his 18-year career.

“We knew if we let Ben know ahead of time, he would’ve been like, ‘No, don’t do that,'” Heyward said. “So we took it out of his hands. He was a little bit annoyed, but we wanted to give him every bit of opportunity to celebrate this.”

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Roethlisberger kept his usual pregame routine Monday night, arriving four hours before the contest, but he didn’t take the field for final warm-ups until 46 minutes remained before kickoff.

“Ben did a really nice job of setting the pace,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. “He was singularly focused. It was business as usual, and so he was easy to follow, and I think that everybody got their vibe from him in that way. Obviously, it was an extremely emotional night and all that, but he did a good job kind of setting the post for that approach all week.”

Roethlisberger embraced Steelers minority owner Thomas Tull, who took out a full, front-page advertisement in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday to thank the quarterback. Tull also wore a black Roethlisberger jersey.