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Joe Starkey: Who’s really causing the ‘distraction’ here, Ben or AB?

I’m with Steelers guard Ramon Foster on Antonio Brown’s little Gatorade bash.

“I’m not trippin’,” Foster told The Fan Morning Show on Tuesday. “AB is who he is. … I can’t be mad at him.”

Neither can I. And let’s be honest, the whole thing would have been contained as a tiny waste-basket fire if quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn’t come along with a can of gasoline.

Now it’s a national headline, like the one that appeared on profootballtalk.com: “Roethlisberger: Antonio Brown Created ‘Distraction That None of Us Really Need.’ ”

Or ESPN.com: “Big Ben calls Brown’s tantrum ‘unfortunate.