You may not have noticed it immediately. After Ben Roethlisberger took the Steelers down the field in two minutes, won the game with a TD to Mike Wallace as time expired, and very possibly saved Pittsburgh’s season, you could be forgiven for looking past the stat sheet. We all did.
Don’t Forget: ‘Ben’ Is One Of The Best
↵But for those too busy hyperventilating after that last-second touchdown… Ben Roethlisberger threw for 500 yards yesterday. Good lord. The guys at National Football Post took note:
↵↵Roethlisberger became the third quarterback in league history to throw for at least 500 yards and three touchdowns in a game without throwing an interception. The other two?
↵Hall of Fame quarterbacks Y.A. Tittle and Warren Moon.
↵↵It was a Steelers franchise record, and as SB Nation’s Inhistoric points out, one of several records to fall during the NFL’s 15th week.
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It’s been a long year for the man the NFL knows simply as “Ben,” and for a guy with two Super Bowl rings, he’s dismissed awfully easily from the “Best Quarterback” conversation each year.
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Which makes yesterday a perfect reminder: in a close game, late in the season with everything on the line, “Ben” is as good as anyone in the NFL. Might not always look pretty, but look up at the end: a game-winning drive and (gulp) 500 passing yards?! That’s as good as it gets.
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