Is Ben Roethlisberger MVP and role model material? (Part 5)
This is the fifth part of a six part series of articles discussing whether Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, also known as Big Ben, is worthy of the National Football League (NFL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and if he is a good role model.
So Ben is agile and strong and knows how to keep from messing up. But what brought him to the Super Bowl and not Brady? The answer rests with the rest of the team. The Steelers, not Ben, have better receivers, a better running game and a better defensive line. This is what that “palate of greatness” should have been.
So some people, if not most people, think that Ben should be stopped and that he has had his way for too long. But what’s just over the rainbow for Ben?
It’s the ones that believe that Ben is a new man. Everybody’s been watching him, reading about him and listening about him. They know the pressure that a quarterback has to go through in the two weeks after winning the division championships and right before the Super Bowl. Those 12 days are full of pressure.
Most people want Ben to pay for the crimes that they don’t know that he has committed. Has anyone ever though that the alleged victim in the Milledgeville incident did not wish to pursue criminal charges because she had no evidence to support her accusations? Someone could just come up now and say that Ben has been practicing for the Super Bowl by tossing newborn babies between him and his buddies but that doesn’t make it true.
There are some people that still like Ben Roethlisberger. If you knew the old one, you would too. Overall, he is a good person. He does not have that “I am so much better than you” attitude that some other players such as Terrell Owens have. He used to, but not anymore.
Now, his teammates are saying that he no longer acts like the sun, which the team revolves around.
Receiver Hines Ward said that “He’s one of the guys now.”
Fans in the Steelers’ crazy town of Pittsburgh factor in decency as much as image. For a long time, most of the Terrible Towel waving fans wanted Ben to be released because he was found guilty of violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, causing him to be suspended for four games instead of the original six.
People still dislike Ben but not as many as before. Steelers’ fans aren’t won over by phonies. They are won with sincerity and Ben is certainly winning them.
"I was surprised," Ray Skoff, a Steelers’ season ticket holder said. "Behavior and attitude-wise, I believe he's done a total 180, how he presents himself on and off the field. It seems totally different."
There was a small incident that really proves that Ben has turned around. Reporters say that when Ben was walking from the locker room to the showers after their win over the New York Jets in the AFC Championship Game, he almost ran into a television guy. Not a cameraman or anchor. He was, not to sound mean or disrespectful, a nobody. Well, a nobody to Ben anyways. But Ben stopped, said “please,” with a gesture of his hand, allowing him to walk past first.
The remaining article will be discussed in the next part of this series. Take a look!
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