Pittsburgh is a hockey city simply as a lot as it’s a soccer city, and worlds collided on Saturday night when two Pittsburgh Steelers soccer greats led the puck drop for a university hockey recreation between Robert Morris and Miami of Ohio.
RMU Males’s Hockey shared a video of the puck drop on X.
Discover how Roethlisberger and Keisel are nonetheless competing to today, as they have been bickering over who’s decide hit the bottom first.
Ben Roethlisberger in fact went to Miami of Ohio in school and was drafted out of there by the Steelers within the first spherical of the 2004 NFL Draft. I don’t suppose Keisel has any connections to RMU, which is located in Moon township close to the Pittsburgh airport, however he nonetheless participated within the occasion. I’m wondering if the pair might be noticed at Sunday Evening Soccer tomorrow in opposition to the New York Jets. It’s alumni night time for the Tremendous Bowl IX workforce, so possibly among the legends from the newer Tremendous Bowl groups will make appearances as nicely.
Keisel was a defensive finish that was with the workforce from 2002 to 2014 after being drafted by the workforce within the seventh spherical of the 2002 NFL Draft. He had fairly the profession for a seventh-round decide and gained two Tremendous Bowls with Roethlisberger. At one level, they have been each workforce captains.
It’s bizarre seeing the pair with out massive beards. At one level, it seemed like they have been competing to see who might have the largest beard potential. Most of you’ll bear in mind the superb Steelers twitter problem a number of years again after they grew Keisel’s beard in photoshop for each 1,000 likes on the tweet, which ended on this:
Keisel used to shave his beard yearly for charity.
Together with different members of these 2000s groups, Ben Roethlisberger and Brett Keisel nonetheless hunt collectively now and again. I might think about they’re additionally fairly aggressive in that setting, too.