Whether its status as such was ever justified or not, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s weekly in-season radio show had become a lightning rod of controversy in recent years, in large part because he had a certain familiarity with his hosts in which he often felt comfortable speaking off the cuff.
I personally never really though that he ever said anything particularly bad, and yes that includes his comments about Antonio Brown running a route incorrectly. But his comments seemingly drew national headlines on a weekly basis, to the point where he previously said earlier this offseason that he was reconsidering continuing with it.