Another fun video from Nick Sampson at Quest for the Continent Productions:





We’ll be posting a “Behind the Scenes” video as well as a “Bloopers” video next week!

From Nick Sampson at Quest for the Continent Productions today:

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From an article written by JoAnne Klimovich Harrop at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today:

It is not uncommon to see Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and fiancee Ashley Harlan stay after Sunday service at Christ Church at Grove Farm in Ohio Township, mingling with parishioners where the couple will marry this weekend, a pastor at the church said.

“Ben and Ashley have been very consistent and genuine in their worship,” the Rev. Bruce Cote, senior associate pastor and interim lead pastor, said Sunday. “I often see them talking with other people before and after services.”

The couple joined the church about a year ago. After they did, a letter was sent to parishioners asking them to treat Roethlisberger like any other member. Cote said it is hard to know what Roethlisberger goes through, being such a popular sports figure, but added he and Harlan have embraced the church community.

“That is refreshing,” Cote said. ” ‘Good job’ I say to how they handle themselves.”

One of the greeters said yesterday that Roethlisberger and Harlan are a wonderful couple who attend service weekly when they are in town and that both come from Christian households from which their foundation of faith was formed.


You can read more here.



Quote of the Day:

McCoy was encouraged by Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger after the game, won by Pittsburgh, 28-10.

McCoy writes that Roethlisberger said, “Great job. I thought you played well today. Keep your head up. You’re going to be a great player.” — From the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Tony Grossi, on his book review of “Growing Up Colt — A Father, a Son, a Life in Football.”

The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at The Giving Back Fund is welcoming grant inquiries for support until August 1st for the 2011-12 season!

This is the fifth grant cycle for Ben’s Foundation. The majority of the grants we distribute help K-9 units to purchase dogs and dog safety vests, but other types of needs will be considered.

The Foundation will be distributing grants in the cities and surrounding communities of each regular season away game for the Steelers during the 2011-12 season. The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation invites police and fire departments in these eight cities to submit proposals detailing their needs.

For the first time this year, if the Steelers make the playoffs, the Foundation will also make grants to two cities anywhere in the United States that would not otherwise be eligible to apply. In addition, the Foundation will continue to make grants to several police and fire department K-9 units in the Pittsburgh area following the Super Bowl XLVI.

The Foundation distributed more than $110,000 in grants to K-9 units around the country during the 2010-11 Season.

Eligible departments must apply to The Giving Back Fund by August 1, 2011. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.


To view the full grant requirements, eligibility and evaluation process, click here.


Would you like to donate to Ben’s Foundation? Click here.


For more information, please contact Jessica Duffaut at jduffaut@givingback.org

SI‘s Don Banks,  from his “Inside the NFL” column today:

With face-to-face negotiations between the principle figures involved in the NFL’s labor fight scheduled to again resume Thursday in New York, many observers believe the end game to this messy, four-month test of wills and wallets has at last come into view.

“I’d say that back in March, we weren’t in the same stadium,” said one league source of the players and owners. “But if you think of both sides as a team, now we’re in the red zone, we’re driving, we can see the goal line and we have momentum. But can we still screw it up? Absolutely. That’s why tomorrow and Friday are big days, because it’s back to the (negotiating) formula that’s been most successful.”

“It does feel like we’re at the 5-yard line, and we’re right there,” one NFL general manager said Wednesday. “But it’s like Jerome Bettis has the ball, and I’ve seen him fumble on the 1-yard line before. If there’s a fumble now, hopefully either Goodell or Smith plays Ben Roethlisberger and stops the whole thing from falling apart.”


You can read Mr. Banks full column on the negotiations here.



Also Today:


From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review‘s Scott Brown on the latest Steelers training camp news:

In a sign of guarded optimism that labor peace will soon prevail, the Steelers held an organization-wide meeting Wednesday to talk about training camp.

The Steelers are planning on training at St. Vincent College for the 46th consecutive season. The streak, however, is in jeopardy because of the NFL lockout.

If the start of preseason practice is delayed — and some sort of signing period for free agents and draft picks is almost sure to precede the start of drills — the Steelers could be looking at a shortened camp at St. Vincent.

“With us being a veteran team, I don’t think (not having camp) would kill us,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said recently. “But you kind of have to put some of the young guys through all that stuff — training camp and St. Vincent.”


You can read more from Mr. Brown’s column and see video […]