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| 15th May, 2006 - 12:06 pm |  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - With Jerome Bettis now retired, the Steelers locker room has been a lot quieter. Their outgoing leader is gone and now the Steelers must look to somebody else to lead the team. Their top applicant: Ben Roethlisberger.
As luck would have it, Roethlisberger is more than ready to become the next Bettis for the Steelers, the next face of the franchise.
He was modest when asked if he felt any pressure in potentially assuming such a powerful role.
"No pressure; I just do it because you guys (the media) want to talk to me for some reason," Roethlisberger said, grinning. "It's one of those things that's part of being the quarterback for a team -- and now you won a Super Bowl. So there's probably a couple more of you guys around here."
Second-year tight end Heath Miller did not hesitate in assessing Roethlisberger's place in the franchise's pecking order.
"This is Ben's team," Miller said. "Ben's earned the right to be a leader. He's well-respected from the top to the bottom of this organization. I don't know if he's going to change anything. He's just going to keep doing what he's doing. He's pretty much earned what he gets." [READ] |
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