Future Hall of Famer Ben Roethlisberger aims to model Christ for his kids with the help of numerous athletes who speak out about their faith, making it cooler to be a Christian now than when he joined the NFL.

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“I think it’s a great hire,” said Roethlisberger. “I think it’s smart for a few reasons. There’s something to be said about a Pittsburgh guy. I know that that’s not going to win games necessarily, but he understands what it is to bleed black and gold. I know he’s coached elsewhere, but you’re telling me that deep down inside him, he didn’t always have black and gold run through his veins a little bit. There’s something there.

“Is it going to win games? Probably not. But I used the analogy on my podcast that Miami of Ohio, right, my alma mater, I wanted them to hire a Miami guy, because you know he’s not using the stepping stone, you know he loves it, he wants to be there forever.

“Mike McCarthy, you could tell in his introductory press conference, this is a big deal for him. I know people will say, well, it’s a head coaching job, it’s a big deal for anybody. There’s just something there to it. You get a guy with a lot of heart, and I’ve used this analogy a million times. I’ll pick a lineman with less talent and more heart than more talent and less heart. And people go, well, why? Because there’s something that you can’t quantify. You can’t gauge heart.

“And Mike McCarthy has heart for this team, this city, this organization, Lombardi’s, and there’s something about that. I’m just telling you.”

“I understand this team, and this city will always bleed defense and running the ball,” said Roethlisberger. “But at some point, you’ve got to keep up with the Joneses, and you got start scoring some points. And it doesn’t mean that you’re taking anything away from your defense. So that’s another reason I like this hire.

“And I would use this analogy and ask people this question. If you were going into a game or a season, say it’s a Super Bowl or it’s a full season, you had a […]

.@_BigBen7 thinks building a team around a QB is the wrong way to go:

“Rebuild is like this big word in Pittsburgh, you don’t sue that word rebuild… I think you should build a team to plug a quarterback into… Let’s build this team up.” pic.twitter.com/NcvMl0fjJ6

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“If Ben ever sees this, we did try our best to be there!” — Taylor & Bailey, January 3, 2022.

“Terrible just terrible. There was three inches of just solid ice covering the entire road. So anytime we attempted to get out of the vehicle you were just sliding everywhere,” Ferguson said.

The destination for the two was Pittsburgh just in time for the Steelers’ kickoff. This duo left Oak Island, North Carolina, by car after two canceled flights determined to be in their seats for Big Ben’s last home game. It was around 1 p.m. when the trip came to a halt.

“We tried everything. We said okay maybe we will make it after the first quarter, maybe we will make it for halftime, maybe we will make it for the last two minutes of the game that’s what kept us going for so many hours. Just maybe we will get to pull into the parking lot of people celebrating in the parking lot as they are leaving,” Ferguson said.

It wasn’t until about 5 a.m. Tuesday that things got moving and that they finally got off the interstate.