The Super Bowl is a Meeting of the Mindspots
Mike Tomlin: Yeah, I’ve been enjoying it. You have to a little bit. And it’s nice to be in something other than sub-arctic temperatures, but we came down here to achieve a goal and our mind is strictly on that. Next?
Reporter: So far this postseason, Ben Roethlisberger hasn’t turned the ball over a single time. What have you been doing with him to minimize mistakes?
Tomlin: You know, we haven’t really been doing much out of our ordinary with the offense. That’s really on Ben. I’ve talked with him some about being smart with the ball and visualizing what he wants to do if plays break down.
Reporters: Ben! Ben!
Ben Roethlisberger: HI ASSEMBLED MEDIA
HOLD ON. THE BEN FILMING THIS FOR THE FUTURE BEN.
OKAY. ASK PROFESSIONAL QUESTIONS.
Reporter: Coach Tomlin just said he encouraged you to visualize what you had to do to succeed this postseason. What sort of things have you visualized?
Ben: HARF HARF HARF
WHY WOULD I NEED VISUAL EYES? EYES ARE ALWAYS VISUAL. THAT’S REDONDO.
BUT COACH ASKED ME TO USE THE BRAINSPOT’S EYE TO FOCUS ON WHAT THE BEN WANTS. AND THAT BEEN WORKING GOOD.
I GOTS VISUAL EYES ON VISUAL PRIZE.
COACH TOLD THE BEN TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE BALL. IMAGINE IT TO BE SOMETHING OF GREAT VALUE. COACH SAID NOT TO TRUST IT IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO GONNA MISTREAT IT.
Reporter: Based on your time working with him, what advice can you give to your defense about reading Roethlisberger and maybe confusing his looks at the alignment?
Ken Whisenhunt: People are making a lot of my time with Ben. And I know him okay. But that was the beginning of his career and he’s grown a lot as a player since then. So I don’t know if I have all the answers when it comes to his every mannerism and technique.
We’ll make some cosmetic changes to our defensive schemes, but I don’t see us doing all that much differently.
We done? Cool. Thanks.
Tags: ben rongrastname, xmas ape
January 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
We need a Silverback sighting !!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Isn’t that a little bit lacist referring to a black man as a choco taco? Also, a little bit gay that Ben can’t get enough choco taco in his mouth?
HARF HARF HARF!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Special Needs Ben is great!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
“That’s redondo.”
I’m sorry- is this supposed to be a Rongrastname post or an Emmitt Smiff post? Regardless, it made me harf out loud.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Whisenhunt, you fool! Ben can’t read!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Whisenhunt is one crafty bastard
January 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
@ LaFavre: That’s Redondo.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Now if they changed the helmet logos to Choco Tacos I’d buy the ending. Names on jerseys? I agree with Jewbacca.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
hmmm…. I thought that Hines was the only one who rewarded Rongrastname with the Prized Choco Taco…
That being said, I’d probably die of amusement overload if Rongrastname showed up with a Choco Taco on the victory podium.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
if the Steelers win the Superbowl I want a post about highly intellectual Ben and how pew pew pew is all a show to deceive his opponents.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
“if the Steelers win the Superbowl I want a post about highly intellectual Ben and how pew pew pew is all a show to deceive his opponents”
Steelers win or no, you can wish in one hand, and crap in the other….
January 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Steelers win or no, you can wish in one hand, and crap in the other….
That’s exactly how Osi Umenyura got motivated for Super Bowl XLII.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
“Steelers win or no, you can wish in one hand, and crap in the other….”
Can we get a definition of this folksy aphorism? Did Terry Bradshaw write this?
January 28th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Otto +1
January 28th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
FWIW, Sweed is pretty reliable in Madden.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Brilliant, just brilliant.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Can someone please explain the choco taco thing? Sorry, I’m kind of slow. It took me weeks to figure out what the hell “Rongrastname” was supposed to mean. Once I did, I was grad that I finarry got the joke.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I’m not sure how Whisenhunt’s plan works. How would presenting Ben with a giant Choco Taco convince to give up his own Choco Taco and lose his visual eyes on the Choco Taco prize? Does biting into Antrell Taco get him suspended by the league? One would think seeing so many Choco Tacos would only confuse Rofflesburger and make him clutch dearly to the Choco he knows.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, 33 years of age with hat, 72 without.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Can someone please explain the choco taco thing?
Choco Taco
One of KSK character-Ben Roethlisberger’s two favorite things, along with Call of Duty.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Taco
January 28th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
That was it? Oh well, somehow I thought it was some obscure nickname for Tomlin. Thanks.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Ocho Cinco is jealous.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am
@NMB
He should have changed his name to Choco Cinco.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Don’t worry Ape, Ben knows what to do to ensure victory this Sunday……finish the game with a 23.0 QB rating!
January 29th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Roethlisberger, Warner – who melts down in the big game? YOU decide!
Call now…
January 29th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Well that’s just peachy, but if you could remind me why you’re wasting my time again while a small child is dying that’d be great.
-Dr. House
Coach Tomrin’s Supelbowrr Cereblations?
January 29th, 2009 at 7:30 am
/puts on professor glasses
Mo Charlo–
It’s a midwesternism. The saying goes “You can wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which hand gets filled first.” It’s a graphic way to say “You never know, but I fucking doubt it.” The quote is also featured in the Grumpy Old Men movies.
//loses professor glasses; class dismissed
January 29th, 2009 at 8:31 am
From the looks of the 2nd picture, Ben hasn’t been visualizing Choco Tacos so much as he has been eating them.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:50 am
If Big Ben were a soccer player his name would be Redondo
January 29th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
What I don’t get, is how Mike Tomlin managed to coach in the NFL and be the black guy on House.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
As a Colts fan, I am deeply disheartened that Kurt Warner and Big Ben are going to be duking it out for their second Super Bowl rings, whereas our beloved Peypey only has one, and is currently home for the season.
On the upside, change has come to Indianapolis. So, now we’re dangerous and unpredictable, and might actually be able to run the ball and stop the run. And not play the Chargers.