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PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger’s NFL career is over.
The longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback reported his retirement on Thursday, saying it was “time to clean out my locker, hang up my cleats” after 18 a long time, two Super Bowls, incalculable group records and a spot within the Corridor of Popularity all but secure.
“I don’t know how to put into words what the amusement of football has implied to me and what a favoring it has been,” Roethlisberger, 39, said in a video message. “But I know with certainty I have given my all to the diversion, I am overpowered with appreciation for what it has given me.”
The much-anticipated choice came less than two weeks after Pittsburgh’s unbalanced loss to Kansas City within the to begin with circular of the postseason, the 12th time in Roethlisberger’s career the Steelers come to the playoffs.
He implied some time recently his last amusement at Heinz Field that it was time for him to move on and spend more time with his spouse, Ashley, and their three children and made it a point to grasp the minute taking after a Monday night win over the Browns on Jan. 3, doing a triumph lap of sorts some time recently vanishing down the burrow encompassed by his family.
Roethlisberger called the travel from a kid developing up in Ohio to the 11th by and large choose within the 2004 draft to a likely future Lobby of Famer “exhilarating,” but he included he is resigning “a genuinely thankful man.”
One who clears out behind a bequest of winning. The Steelers never persevered a losing season amid Roethlisberger’s residency and captured Super Bowls 40 and 46 — the last mentioned coming on a now-iconic landing pass over the outstretched hands of three Arizona protectors to Santonio Holmes within the back corner of the conclusion zone.
“Putting that shirt on each Sunday with my brothers, will continuously be one of the most prominent delights of my life,” he said.
Roethlisberger’s individual travel, not at all like his proficient one, was more complicated. He wasn’t wearing a protective cap when broke his jaw and his nose in a cruiser crash in 2006 without further ado after getting to be the most youthful quarterback ever to win a Super Bowl.
He was twice denounced of sexual ambush, once in 2009 and once more in 2010. A gracious case recorded against him stemming from an affirmed occurrence at Lake Tahoe in 2009 was settled out of court. A lady in Georgia charged he attacked her at a bar in Walk 2010 but prosecutors did not formally charge him.
The NFL suspended him for the begin of the 2010 season for damaging the league’s individual conduct arrangement. He returned to lead the Steelers to the Super Bowl, a misfortune to Green Narrows.
The moment half of his career implied at his advancement both as a player and as a individual. Known more forhis tough “Ben being Ben” approach to the amusement amid his 20s, he morphed into one of the league’s head passes in his 30s. He twice driven the alliance in yards passing and resigns within the all-time beat 10 in yards passing and landing passes.
