1982-

Footballer. Grew up in Findlay, Ohio, awarded a football scholarship by Miami (Ohio) University, now a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 2006, only his second year in the league, he led his team to victory against the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, the youngest quarterback ever to do so. Weighing in at 242 lb and standing six foot five tall, he is nicknamed "Big Ben". After his Super Bowl victory, Pittsburgh promptly renamed hamburgers “Roethlisburgers”. The Roethlisberger family immigrated form the Emmental village of Geissbühl in Canton Bern four generations ago. 

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