{"id":6737,"date":"2013-11-10T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:58:58","slug":"ben-roethlisberger-calls-trade-report-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/10\/ben-roethlisberger-calls-trade-report-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Roethlisberger calls trade report BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6686\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6686\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben Roethlisberger denied a report that he would <a title=\"Report: Steelers to field offers for Ben Roethisberger, agent denies request\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/10\/report-steelers-to-listen-for-trade-offers-for-ben-roethisberger\/\">seek a trade<\/a> in the offseason calling the report &#8220;totally false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport suggested that Roethlisberger was unhappy in Pittsburgh and would seek a trade. It did not take long before the agent of Roethlisberger defended his client.<\/p>\n<p>Roethlisberger has been the quarterback of the Steelers since 2004 winning two Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to wanting to go somewhere else or anything like that, that\u2019s completely unacceptable. I don\u2019t know where that came from. It\u2019s one of the most B.S. stories I\u2019ve ever heard of. I\u2019ve always said I want to be a Steeler for life,\u201d Roethlisberger said, via CBS&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/eye-on-football\/24214349\/steelers-have-no-plans-trade-roethlisberger-calls-report-erroneous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eye on Football<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it here, I\u2019m happy here and I don\u2019t want to go anywhere. No one in my family, in our camp, agents have ever said anything about this. So wherever this was made up from is totally false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roethlisberger made clear to point out his feelings towards being in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to go anywhere, I love it here. This is family, this is where I want to be and where I\u2019ve always wanted to be. I don\u2019t want to play for anyone else. I want to finish my career here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Roethlisberger denied a report that he would seek a trade in the offseason calling the report &#8220;totally false.&#8221; Earlier in the day NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport suggested that Roethlisberger was unhappy in Pittsburgh and would seek a trade. It did not take long before the agent of Roethlisberger defended his client. Roethlisberger has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[89,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-6737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737","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=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}