What is perfection? Is it like beauty — in the eyes of the beholder? It must be, because Big Ben Roethlisberger was given a perfect passer rating for his efforts against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night. I must admit I’m slightly confused because, forgive me for bringing this up, Ben wasn't perfect during that game. Just look at the stats, he had three incompletions. So how is that perfect? What kind of rating system is that?
This doesn't happen in other professional sports as I recall. If you make ninety nine out of one hundred free throws in basketball, the official statistician doesn't say “close enough” and award you a perfect 100-percent average.