In a recent interview with Men’s Journal, retired running back Rashard Mendenhall talked about how he doesn’t miss the NFL one bit. The Pittsburgh Steelers former first-round selection also talked about how rookies were expensively initiated by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger while he was there.
According to Reeves Wiedeman, Mendenhall said that during his career in Pittsburgh that rookies were expected to throw a party at the beginning of the season. In fact, one of those parties was apparently quite costly and a then-rookie offensive lineman got stuck with quite a bill after giving his credit card to Roethlisberger.