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After Ben Roethlisberger’s ill-fated attempt to fake spike the ball at the end of the Steelers game versus the Patriots resulted in a crushing interception, fans of the team decided to take out their frustration and with a brutal attack on Roethlisberger via Twitter.
One problem though. The Steelers fans actually attacked some random guy on Twitter and not the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. Whoops! (Perhaps they still weren’t thinking clearly after the referees took away their game-winning touchdown with the “it’s a catch, but not really” rule.)
Here’s the inexplicable play by Roethlisberger that sealed the game for the Patriots on Sunday.
This is insane. pic.twitter.com/60ifqIzddS
— Dan Levy (@DanLevyThinks) December 18, 2017
And here’s Roethlisberger trying to make the inexplicable explicable.
Ben Roethlisberger says there was a difference of opinion on #Steelers final play. "It wasn't a fake spike. I was yelling 'clock it' b/c I felt that was the thing to do, to clock it and get yourself one play. And it came from the sideline: 'Don't clock it, don't clock it.'"
— Aditi Kinkhabwala (@AKinkhabwala) December 18, 2017
Regardless of whose fault the fake spike play was, Steelers fans were pissed.
Steelers lost, I gather. pic.twitter.com/eV1aP5RJ2f
— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) December 18, 2017
Ummm, you got the wrong guy, folks…
https://twitter.com/MongoGoesInsane/status/942566929516113920
https://twitter.com/DougRideout/status/942550088278306816
Ok I see you wanna “catch them off guard” but with a slant? And you waited to long.. just throw it away… you’re smarter than that @BenRothenberg
— Kdawgg (@TopDawgg_) December 18, 2017
Ben Rothenberg is starting to play like Maddox and Tomczak just trash.. wtfwyt? Dumb shit.. who paid you off????
— Erik Peele (@ErikPeele) December 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/dmbkcs69/status/942588137707991040
https://twitter.com/Chichen_Pizza/status/942586709618905088
Not big bens fault no one else was tried to get open, I seem like no one else knew the play.
— NJ Gator1 (@DejaunWade) December 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/davejshea/status/942594804600528896
And those weren’t even the worst tweets at poor Ben Rothenberg. He got accused of being a sexual predator even before Big Ben threw his pick.
@BenRothenberg is a sexual predator he should never win a game he should not be allowed to play in the NFL
— Dustin Canada (@dcanada40) December 18, 2017
Luckily for him, not everyone can’t tell the difference between Rothenberg and Roethlisberger.
https://twitter.com/sadpRik/status/942554291805573120
https://twitter.com/elwelleats/status/942554485439782912
https://twitter.com/BenjaminBastard/status/942572680099848192
And one even apologized…
@BenRothenberg my apologies. A little to enthusiastic to check the @.
— Doug Rideout (@DougRideout) December 18, 2017
At least Rothenberg isn’t alone in dealing with cases of mistaken identity. Jon Jones also knows exactly how Ben feels.
https://twitter.com/max4sox/status/942568929670471680