If Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert was hoping to turn the page on a season in which his team’s locker room more closely resembled a reality show than a professional working environment, his choice of words last week came up short.
In explaining how the team was all in on quarterback Ben Roethlisberger while moving on from Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell, Colbert pointed to Roethlisberger’s Super Bowl history and noted that “he has 52 kids under him, quite honestly.” He was quickly criticized for the comment.
“Referring to the other 52 players on the #Steelers as Roethlisberger’s ‘children’ is as bad of an analogy as a GM could make when describing the QB as the leader,” ESPN’s Louis Riddick tweeted.