From Teresa Varley, Steelers.com:

The Steelers take on the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Wild Card game on Saturday, Jan. 9 at 8:15 p.m.

Here is a complete look at the NFL Playoff schedule:


NFL WILD CARD WEEKEND

Saturday, January 9

AFC: Kansas City at Houston (ESPN, with simulcast on ABC) 4:35 PM (ET)

AFC: Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (CBS) 8:15 PM (ET)


Sunday, January 10

NFC: Seattle at Minnesota (NBC) 1:05 PM (ET)

NFC: Green Bay at Washington (FOX) 4:40 PM (ET)


NFL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS
(For the Divisional Playoffs the divison champion with the best record will host the lowest seeded Wild Card survivor.)

Saturday, January 16

AFC: Cincinnati/Houston/Kansas City at New England (CBS) 4:35 PM (ET)

NFC: Minnesota/Washington/Green Bay at Arizona (NBC) 8:15 PM (ET)


Sunday, January 17

NFC: Washington/Green Bay/Seattle at Carolina (FOX) 1:05 PM (ET)

AFC: Houston/Kansas City/Pittsburgh at Denver (CBS) 4:40 PM (ET)


CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

Sunday, January 24

AFC: 3:06 P.M. (ET) on CBS

NFC: 6:40 P.M. (ET) on FOX


SUPER BOWL 50

Sunday, February 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Kickoff 6:30 P.M. (ET) on CBS

The Steelers are headed to the playoffs!

Nothing says it better than this great photo from Gregory Shamus at Getty Images…


Ben hands off the football to a young fan after defeating the Browns this afternoon.


You can check out more photos here.

You can watch Ben’s post-game interview here.

And you can read Teresa Varley’s playoff report here.

Today, Ben announced the tenth, eleventh & twelfth grants of the 2015-16 season from the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at The Giving Back Fund.

It will be a very Happy New Year for the Aurora Police Department, Cleveland Metroparks Ranger Department and the Richmond Heights Police Department, all in the Cleveland area where the Steelers will play the Browns on Sunday, January 3rd.

Aurora PD has just recently re-established their K-9 unit with the addition of K-9 Nero (in the photo) and plans to use the funds to finish Nero’s training and outfit him with a bulletproof vest.

“The Aurora Police Department is extremely grateful to the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation for their generous contribution toward the purchasing of K-9 Nero who will make a great addition to our department. On behalf of all of law enforcement, we are grateful to have organizations such as the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation that provide continued support to law-enforcement entities across the country.” — Aurora Chief of Police Brian Byard.

Richmond Heights PD is also hoping to re-establish their K-9 unit and will continue fundraising efforts.

Meanwhile, Cleveland Metroparks Ranger Department will utilize the grant to update the “hot-n-pop” system in one of their K-9 vehicles. The system allows for remote door operation and heat alerts, ensuring the safety of the K-9 when left in the vehicle.

During the 2015-16 NFL season, The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation will be distributing grants to K-9 units of police and fire departments in the cities and surrounding communities of each regular season away game for the Steelers. The Foundation will also distribute several grants to the Pittsburgh area and will consider a grant to a non-NFL market city in the United States for each playoff game in which the Steelers compete. Ben invited police and fire departments across the country to submit proposals detailing their needs.

This marks the ninth season that the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation has distributed grants to K-9 units. Ben’s mission is to support K-9 units of police and fire departments throughout the United States, with a particular emphasis on support for service dogs in Pittsburgh, PA. Roethlisberger and the Foundation also support Make-A-Wish.

The Foundation distributed more than $130,000 in grants to K-9 units around the country during the 2014-15 NFL season […]

From his radio show this morning on 93.7 The Fan:

With this being such a shocking and disappointing loss, Roethlisberger was asked if he or the team would be dwelling on the game or if they are singularly focused on their big matchup with the Browns in the season finale.

You got to move on,” Roethlisberger said. “Obviously, Sunday night was bummed, yesterday was pretty bummed, but after you get done watching the film and you have your meetings and you talk about the game, you have to move on. I’ve played this game for a long time and, especially at the quarterback position, you have to have short-term memory both good and bad. So, we move on because this week is the biggest week of the season for us. We have to play great football, we have to bounce back.”

While he has moved on and is focused on the Browns this week, Roethlisberger was asked what the feeling was in the locker room immediately following the loss and what he said to his teammates.

“I would say there was a gamut of emotions. Disbelief, anger, just kind of bewilderment and couldn’t understand that that had just happened. We were all kind of disappointed in each other. I think we were disappointed in ourselves and that was my comment to the guys. I said, ‘It starts with me. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and really start there with how we point the thumb, not the finger.’”


You can read more & listen to excerpts from his show here.

“We controlled our own destiny, and we blew it today. We gave the ball away, and you can’t do that. I can’t do that.” — Ben.

You can watch & listen to Ben’s post-game interview here.

Ben & Ashley share their peaceful Christmas morning at the Roethlisberger house:

Miss Baylee’s got talent!!! Check out her new single, “Go Bay Bay Go!”.



The new version of the Little Drummer Boy in a Christmas morning concert!



Hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend!! May God bless you all with love and happiness!