{"id":12587,"date":"2014-11-11T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2014-11-11T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:54:18","slug":"roethlisberger-bieber-at-bible-study-did-not-result-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/11\/roethlisberger-bieber-at-bible-study-did-not-result-in-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Roethlisberger: Bieber at bible study did not result in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bieber.png\" alt=\"bieber\" width=\"759\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bieber.png 759w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/11\/bieber-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><br \/>\nPrior to a poor performance against the New York Jets last Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers met Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally people began to link the 20-13 loss to the presence of Bieber. However, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wants everyone to move on already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Justin Bieber) is one of the more popular guys for good or for bad in the country, so (my teammates) had a chance to say hello and they did.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/11858755\/ben-roethlisberger-said-justin-bieber-visit-had-do-pittsburgh-steelers-loss-new-york-jets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said Roethlisberger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Roethlisberger&#8217;s comments are in stark contrast to Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw who told TMZ he would not have allowed Bieber into the team&#8217;s bible study and that those not connected to the team rarely were allowed into services while he quarterbacked the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Great to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinbieber\">@justinbieber<\/a> tonight at chapel! Thanks for coming! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0wNuTzEG8z\">pic.twitter.com\/0wNuTzEG8z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Gradkowski (@bgradkowski5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgradkowski5\/status\/531247116627488768\">November 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bradshw last played in 1983. Times have changed since then with athletes becoming as big of celebrities as singers like Bieber while team functions regularly cater to outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not a big deal at all,&#8221; Roethlisberger said on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh. &#8220;For instance [former Steelers wide receiver] Plaxico Burress stopped by. Obviously he&#8217;s family, but people stop by all of the time and say, &#8216;Hi,&#8217; and we&#8217;ve had other athletes, actors, celebrities, stuff like that stop by. It&#8217;s not a big deal at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roethlisberger said he did not get a chance to meet Bieber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to a poor performance against the New York Jets last Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers met Justin Bieber. Naturally people began to link the 20-13 loss to the presence of Bieber. However, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wants everyone to move on already. &#8220;(Justin Bieber) is one of the more popular guys for good or for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[89,426,859,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-front","tag-justin-bieber","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12589,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}