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‘I Don’t Know That I Could Play:’ Ben Roethlisberger Nearly Missed Super Bowl XLV After Injuring Foot In Shuffleboard Accident

Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is known for being a warrior as he played through many injuries throughout his career for the benefit of the team that he probably shouldn’t have. It is also known that he played through injury in Super Bowl XLV against the Green Bay Packers, but until today we never knew the cause of the injury.

On his podcast Footbahlin’, Roethlisberger told the story of how he hurt his foot before the Super Bowl. Roethlisberger set the scene saying that his family, and agents rented a house down in Dallas and during his time there they played shuffleboard.