Roosevelt Nix was a part of the coin toss Sunday as a Steelers captain for the first time in his career. He had a front-row seat to Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict refusing to shake hands with him, Ben Roethlisberger and Cam Heyward. “You can hate somebody all you want, but to do that? That’s ridiculous,” Roethlisberger said after the Steelers’ 29-14 win. “We were all kind of shocked by that.”
It’s hard to imagine Nix being surprised. He, as much as anyone, knows the type of person and type of player Burfict is. Go back to the Steelers game in Cincinnati in December.