The best Big Ben injuries

Everyone on Earth who isn't a Steeler fan knows plain as day that Ben Roethlisberger is a drama queen.  Anytime he takes any kind of a hit, he starts limping or flexing his elbow to show that he's tough and wants to stay in the game.  Then when the Steeler defense holds the other team to less points that Ben manages to score, the Steelers win the game and Big Ben is seen as a "blue-collar QB" who battles through pain and injuries to bring home a W.  It's all horseshit.

I wanted to take a look back at some of Big Overrated's pussy injuries.   And by "some", I mean all of them.

2004 -- In his rookie season of 2004 where he "managed the game" while the Steelers' defense won every game, he took a beautiful shot to the ribs courtesy of Terrell Suggs.

2005 -- On a Monday night, Ben took a shot to his left knee and had to leave the game.   It's probably the only legitimate injury Roethlisberger has sustained in his entire career.  What an idiot.

Later that season, he injured his knee against Baltimore and missed three games.  That injury isn't depicted in the picture above, but that Bart Scott hit always makes me LOL.

 2006

This was when Big Ben's douchebagosity started seeing the light of day in Pittsburgh.  During the offseason, he got into a stupid motorcycle accident then missed the first game of the season due to appendicitis.

A handful of games into the season, and Roethlisberger was down again.  This time in Atlanta. LOL.  It was his second concussion of the season.  Then he was too proud to sit out the following week, where the Raiders humiliated the Steelers and Ben in the Black Hole.

2007
Ben was relatively injury-free this season.  No surprise, considering he was looking for a contract renewal.

2008 -- Surprise!!!  Big Ben "battled" through a separated shoulder in the first half of the season only to "reaggravate" it in a game in Washington. Wah-wah-wah.  Roethlisberger decided he was healthy enough to play the following week against Indianapolis, where Peyton Manning showed him what an elite QB is made of.

Later in the 2008 season came one of my favorite Ben moments.  He took a shot to the head against the Browns then acted paralyzed on the field.  They had to bring a stretcher out, and then he did the cliched "thumbs up" to the crowd.  "Steeler Nation" was beside itself as Big Ben was taken to the hospital.  Two months and change later, with some help for the refs in SBXLIII, Roethlisberger weaseled his way into another SB ring.

2009 -- This was pretty funny.  The Steelers were horrible this season.  Ben suffered a concussion in a loss to Tyler Palko's Chiefs.

2010
This season was full of laughs, as well.  First, Big Ben had to serve a 4-game suspension because for whatever the hell happened in Georgia.



Then he broke his foot in Buffalo.





Then my Ravens beat the shit out of him, breaking his nose.


2011
Big Ben broke his thumb in some bullshit game then sustained a high-ankle sprain that he played through the rest of the season.  He was too proud to sit out, and his performance cost the Steelers dearly, especially since the aging defense was showing signs of fatigue.  It all culminated in the hilarious loss to Tim Tebow and the Broncos.

2012
Roethlisberger had a slightly torn rotator cuff when the Steelers reported to camp this past summer.  No surprise there.


Looking forward to what 2012 has in store.