“Blue 80! Blue 80! Set, hut!”
You heard that from QB Ben Roethlisberger so much you probably still remember exactly how it sounds. It’s become part of Steelers meme culture. But what did “Blue 80” mean? Something? Nothing.
In a livestream of Roethlisberger’s Footbahlin podcast, airing during Sunday’s game against the Green Bay Packers, he offered an answer. As asked by Steelers Depot reader Sad Champ off the discussion Dave Bryan and I had on Friday’s Terrible Podcast, wondering the same thing, Roethlisberger offered some insight.
“Yeah, sometimes colors would mean something,” Roethlisberger said.