Roethlisberger Takes Blame for Playoff Loss, Fart
(Pittsburgh, PA) - Fresh off a first-round playoff defeat at the hands of the Jacksonville Jaguars - the second home loss to the Jaguars in four weeks - the Pittsburgh Steelers were down in the dumps Sunday. And no Steeler was dumping harder than quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
"I have no excuses for my play out there. I stunk," Roethlisberger said at a Sunday morning press conference. "We tried to come back after I had crapped things up, but by the end of the fourth, I was gassed."
But the stinking didn't end for Roethlisberger - who threw three interceptions in the first half - on the football field. As he readied himself to answer a question about the team's two two-point conversion failures, it happened: he nearly cleared the press conference with powerfully reverberating flatulence.
"When you're going for two... (grimaces)... going for two... (lifts leg)... I'm sorry folks. Speaking of two, I think I've got some more apologizing to do."
Reporters immediately took Roethlisberger to task for his airy bowel-gift.
"Look, I could sit up here and say 'he who smelt it, dealt it.' But I'm not gonna do that," the quarterback said. "I am a man, and I am responsible. And frankly, if I denied it, you would all know full well that I had supplied it."
Roethlisberger refused to take full credit for the pungence of the fart, however. "Yeah, ok, I had some help. When you mix the hot salsa with the medium corn salsa at Chipotle, you're liable to blow a hole in your shorts. Or poop yourself. I'd like to think I accomplished both here today."
Roethlisberger then cut his portion of the press conference short to steal away to the restroom stating that he had to "drop a couple footballs in the endzone."
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What about for not wearing a helmet?
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