Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has a history of opening his mouth when many think he shouldn’t. And I don’t just mean the people who don’t want to hear from him at all. I’m talking about the numerous times over the years he has said things deemed to be controversial, whether they ought to have been or not.
This grand tradition has continued since the launch of his Footbahlin podcast, in the most recent edition of which he had current Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett on as a guest. During the taping, he acknowledged that there was a part of him that didn’t want to be forgotten as old news in Pickett’s wake and thus was not initially entirely rooting for the new Steelers quarterback’s success.