Ben Roethlisberger returned to the Pittsburgh Steelers starting line up wearing all most as much armor under his jersey as a bomb squad worker. The Steelers fell to the San Diego Chargers in Roethlisberger’s return leaving the Steelers fans stunned that their guy Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t pull off the magic the team needed to move up in the race for the AFC North after Charlie Batch got the Steelers a win last week over the Ravens who lost to the Redskins yesterday. The Pittsburgh Steelers had a chance to pick up one game on the Ravens. It would have been huge if Roethlisberger could have pulled it off. The Steelers are now 7-6 in the AFC north are could be seeing their chance of post season play slipping away. It was a day when three of the 4 AFC North teams lost. The Chargers are not that good of a football team, they picked the day that Roethlisberger returned to show up and play. It was a fluke, there is no way the Chargers should have beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, but it happ...
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