For 18 years, fans had a love affair with Ben

The late, great Tunch Ilkin used to say the only quarterback who never got booed here was Scottie Campbell. I think he’s right. The history books tell us about Jim Finks shouting

back at fans from the huddle; about Ernie Stautner ripping into the city for booing Bobby Layne; they tell us how Joe Greene became enraged at fans who cheered Terry Bradshaw’s separated shoulder.

And those were the great quarterbacks.

But not Ben Roethlisberger. You win straight 14 games out the chute, that’ll happen, I guess.

I thought about this city’s love affair with Roethlisberger as he was trying to leave the field following his final home game. There was a mob of reporters, security, support staff backing up with