Ben Roethlisberger: Pittsburgh Steelers two-time Super Bowl winner announces his retirement

Pittsburgh Steelers legendary quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has formally introduced his retirement from the game.

“I do not know tips on how to put into phrases what the sport of soccer has meant to me.

“However I do know with confidence I’ve given my all to the sport,” he stated.

His “exhilarating journey”, which started on the 2004 NFL draft, ended just below a fortnight in the past with a Wild Card Spherical play-off defeat to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.

The Ohio-born passer received the NFL’s largest prize in simply his second season on the Steelers, two years after changing into an eleventh spherical draft pick of Miami College. In beating the Seattle Seahawks within the 2006 Tremendous Bowl he grew to become the youngest quarterback in historical past to elevate the Vince Lombardi trophy, aged simply 23.

He repeated the feat three years later, cementing a Steelers dynasty within the 2000s to rival that of the nice Seventies aspect, and taking the franchise to the highest of the all-time checklist of Tremendous Bowl wins, with six. The file was later matched by the New England Patriots and Tom Brady.

He reached a 3rd Tremendous Bowl within the 2010 season, dropping to Aaron Rodgers and the Inexperienced Bay Packers.

With a lot discuss over the futures of Brady, 44, and Rodgers, 38, each longstanding, much-decorated quarterbacks who had been knocked out of the play-offs final weekend, Roethlisberger’s retirement alerts a altering of the guard in American soccer.

Roethlisberger threw for 215 yards in what many knew could be his ultimate sport, hitting two touchdowns in a 42-21 defeat to the Chiefs.

His opposing quarterback, Mahomes, 26, the NFL’s largest younger star, threw 5 touchdowns within the sport, notching 404 yards total to arrange what turned out to be a basic in opposition to the Buffalo Payments and one other younger gunslinger, Josh Allen, 25.

Joe Burrow, 25, of the Cincinnati Bengals awaits the Chiefs within the AFC Championship Sport on Sunday, whereas the NFC Championship Sport sees 30-year-old Jimmy Garoppolo of the San Francisco 49ers play the LA Rams’ Matt Stafford, 33.