polamalubeast
06-09-2013, 01:12 PM
Let's travel back in time to November 2009.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were scrapping for their playoff lives after an overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in which Ben Roethlisberger was kicked in the head during a sack and sustained a concussion.
With the rival Baltimore Ravens next on the docket, a question of whether Roethlisberger would play was in question.
(Spoiler alert: He missed the game. Hines Wards caused a kerfuffle. The Ravens won in overtime. The Steelers fell to 6-5, would end the season 9-7, lose a tiebreaker to the Ravens and miss the playoffs.)
On Saturday at a concussion conference at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Steelers athletic trainer John Norwig outlined in candid detail how and why Roethlisberger didn't play.
Norwig said Big Ben passed concussion tests early that week and practiced Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
"By Thursday and Friday, he was perking up big-time," Norwig said Saturday, per USA Today.
But after that Friday practice, Roethlisberger didn't feel so hot.
"He said, 'John, I just don't feel right,'" Norwig said. " ... So I had to go to the head coach (Mike Tomlin) and say, 'Hey, look, he's symptomatic. He can't play.'"
read more
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000210371/article/was-big-bens-benching-after-09-concussion-right-call?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
The Pittsburgh Steelers were scrapping for their playoff lives after an overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in which Ben Roethlisberger was kicked in the head during a sack and sustained a concussion.
With the rival Baltimore Ravens next on the docket, a question of whether Roethlisberger would play was in question.
(Spoiler alert: He missed the game. Hines Wards caused a kerfuffle. The Ravens won in overtime. The Steelers fell to 6-5, would end the season 9-7, lose a tiebreaker to the Ravens and miss the playoffs.)
On Saturday at a concussion conference at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Steelers athletic trainer John Norwig outlined in candid detail how and why Roethlisberger didn't play.
Norwig said Big Ben passed concussion tests early that week and practiced Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
"By Thursday and Friday, he was perking up big-time," Norwig said Saturday, per USA Today.
But after that Friday practice, Roethlisberger didn't feel so hot.
"He said, 'John, I just don't feel right,'" Norwig said. " ... So I had to go to the head coach (Mike Tomlin) and say, 'Hey, look, he's symptomatic. He can't play.'"
read more
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000210371/article/was-big-bens-benching-after-09-concussion-right-call?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed