Ben Roethlisberger heard the helicopters overhead, watched on television as people jammed Downtown for a parade to celebrate the Penguins’ Stanley Cup, and it played with his emotions.
“I’m super excited for them, for the city, for Mario and all that,” Roethlisberger said as the parade proceeded, across the Monongahela River from the Steelers practice facility on the South Side. “It’s funny how fast time goes because it doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, but when you think about it, it was.”
The Steelers were paraded through Downtown after winning Super Bowl XLIII seven years ago.