UPDATE #2: Mom is winning
“Even though it’s not a #Browns game, I am as excited as the kids are to be at their first NFL game!” — Ryan Kennedy.
Throwback Thursday: Mom is still hopeful
She’s all grown up now and actually coming to watch you play for the first time this Friday. Mom is hopeful that she will wear something black and yellow, dad is…uh…not.
#RandomActsOfKindness
Lucas, age 4, at @steelers training camp today passing out Terrible Towels to other kids as Random Acts of Kindness in memory of his brother, Toby❤️ Can he get a shout out? @TeamJuJu @JamesConner_ @_BigBen7 #thelittlefoxfoundation
Ben met our son, Lucas, at training camp. Lucas was passing out Terrible Towels as Random Acts of Kindness in honor of his brother, Toby, who died from SIDS in August, 2016.
Ben met and talked with Luke on the field after practice, and spoke with my husband about our non-profit, The Little Fox – Toby’s Foundation, and our annual Random Acts of Kindness Campaign we do in August in Toby’s memory.
Thank you to Ben for making Luke’s day! It was a moment we will never forget. We know that Toby was smiling down from heaven watching his big brother.
www.thelittlefoxfoundation.org — The Stern Family.
That helmet looks great on you, Lucas! https://t.co/xjADQV7LAc pic.twitter.com/a1rpuygGc1
— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) August 7, 2019
Duck, Duck, Ben!
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger ducks under a blocking pad that sails over his head during quarterback drills at evening practice at Heinz Field, Pittsburgh. @PittsburghPG @PGSportsNow @PGVisuals pic.twitter.com/Vo8tSvJ3RJ
— Peter Diana (@peterdianapghpg) August 5, 2019
#MoreThanFootball indeed!
‘I feel like I love football again’
From Bryan DeArdo, CBS Sports:
Ben Roethlisberger is in the midst of his 16th training camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
And there’s nowhere else he’d rather be.
While some players over a dozen years his junior are struggling to get through camp, Big Ben is running around with the joy and energy of a rookie. Roethlisberger’s newfound passion for the game was on full display during a recent practice when, on a designed quarterback sneak from his own 1-yard-line, he elected to sprint 99 yards to the opposite end zone. On his way there, he decided to play some pitch and catch with JuJu Smith-Schuster, who gleefully obliged his quarterback across the goal line.
If his recent actions aren’t convincing enough, Roethlisberger, during an interview with Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, confessed that he has gone through a rejuvenation period after navigating through the storm of what was the 2018 offseason.
“I feel like I love football again,” said Roethlisberger, who signed a two-year contract extension earlier this offseason that will keep him in Pittsburgh through the 2021 season. “I told my wife when I was home the other day, she was asking how it was going. I said I feel like I love football again. She got a big smile on her face and said it made her happy to hear that.”
You can read more from Bryan here.
Photo: Peter Diana