Steelers take on Obama
May 21, 2009 by James Edwards
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Ben faded back into the pocket and Barack Obama rushed him from the right defensive end position.
Obama, referring to Pittsburgh as Six-Burgh in honor of the Steelers’ sixth Super bowl victory in February, conducted what he called the most unique visit by a championship team to the White House.
The Steelers players and coaches joined the President and others, including Pennsylvania Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, in assembling 3,000 USO care packages that will be sent to the troops overseas.
Obama also joked about being a Bears fan, and come to think of it, he is from Illinois.
Meanwhile in this wacky world we live in Big Ben had to deny having skin cancer.
Ben Roethlisberger does not have cancer, and neither does he have a Facebook page.
“There’s no truth to it. I don’t have any of that stuff,” the Steelers quarterback proclaimed yesterday.
“That stuff” are accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and any other social networking Web sites. Roethlisberger said he does not use them, including the one under his name that proclaimed he had skin cancer.
“I had a bunch of people ask me about it. Obviously it’s not true,” Roethlisberger said after yesterday’s spring practice. “We had to go on our Web site to let them know I don’t have an account. There’s nothing going on.”
No Cancer for Big Ben Roethlisberger
The Steelers have to be happy that there are no motorcycle accidents in Big Ben’s life right now and especially no cancer. Take it from a cancer survivor (me, the Squibster), you do not want to have any kind of cancer.
This is the kind of off season the Steelers hoped for.
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