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14 years ago
26-year-old who lives with her parents.

Not living together because of their religious beliefs...I've got to believe that's her religious beliefs...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/nfl/04/07/roethlisberger-wedding.ap/index.html?xid=si_nfl 

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger will marry a 26-year-old physician's assistant whom he said he met during training camp in 2005 and has been friends with ever since, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a story in Thursday's editions.

Roethlisberger, speaking publicly for the first time since the Steelers' loss to the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl, talked about his fiancee, her family and the impact their engagement has had on everyone involved since it leaked out in various media outlets late last year.

Roethlisberger confirmed his July 23 wedding plans to Ashley Harlan, who lives in New Castle, about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger was interviewed Wednesday at his home north of Pittsburgh.

The wedding is scheduled only a week before the Steelers are to begin training camp at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, and Roethlisberger joked that his bride-to-be may be hoping that the NFL lockout drags on.

"I think a small part of her is hoping we hold out for a week so we can honeymoon," Roethlisberger told the Post-Gazette. "I told her I was laughing with coach (Mike) Tomlin; he said, `You guys might have to have the honeymoon suite at St. Vincent.'"

The 29-year-old quarterback also addressed the scrutiny he faced after he was accused of sexual assault in a Georgia nightclub in March 2010. He said his engagement is not a ploy to rebuild his public image.

"We were kind of on and off for five years - almost six years now - so I've known her for a while. It's not like a random new person. We dated a while ago; we have been friends ever since," Roethlisberger told the Post-Gazette.

He did acknowledge working on repairing his reputation and trying to become a better teammate.

"People will always have opinions of everybody and me, and that's fine, they're entitled," Roethlisberger said.

Harlan lives with her parents, and Roethlisberger said they are not living together until they're married because of their religious beliefs.

"People can say that it is whatever, but people who know and can see and are around us and know me, know that it's something special when you find that person, and I'm extremely lucky," he said.

He said that he's been stunned by the media attention to his engagement and that he's worried about how the attention is affecting his fiancee.

"I try to protect her as much as I can," he told the newspaper. "People have gone to her parents' house and have been doing some things. That bothers me a little bit because it's what I do for a living, I have to deal with it, but her parents and her, that's not what they have to do."

Roethlisberger also addressed reports of a wedding gift registry at department stores, saying that it was actually a registry for Harlan's bridal shower and that she has received gifts from strangers as a result.

The 500 people who will be invited to the wedding will be asked not to bring gifts, but to donate to Roethlisberger's charitable foundation, he said. That money will then be donated to Ronald McDonald House and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

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Zero2Cool
14 years ago
Doesn't surprise me. You don't have to live together to bone'er.
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gbguy20
14 years ago
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Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago
So that is why he was passing out free drinks to girls in a college bar, because his girlfriend wouldn't put out? 😉
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DakotaT
14 years ago
Does anybody but me consider Roethlisberger overrated. The Steelers were outplayed in all three of the Super Bowls he has been in, and he literally stunk up two of them.

Of course, I have a real problem giving Socrates Bradshaw any credit either. They should put asterisks by QB winners whose defenses carried the team and that includes Joe Montana's vicotory over the Bengals.
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Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago
You mean that victory in which he gift wrapped a game-losing interception to a Bengals defender -- only to see the idiot drop it?
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Zero2Cool
14 years ago

Does anybody but me consider Roethlisberger overrated. The Steelers were outplayed in all three of the Super Bowls he has been in, and he literally stunk up two of them.

Of course, I have a real problem giving Socrates Bradshaw any credit either. They should put asterisks by QB winners whose defenses carried the team and that includes Joe Montana's vicotory over the Bengals.

"DakotaT" wrote:



Terry Bradshaw was helluva lot better than Ben could even play on Madden with the settings in his favor.

The Steelers defense takes a lot of credit away from what Bradshaw accomplished during his era.
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Cheesey
14 years ago
Bradshaw was a good QB. Maybe if he didn't have that great D he wouldn't have won that much. But what QB does? I mean, if you have a lousy D, it's really hard to win, right?
Rodgers had a decent year numbers wise, but it was the D that held on to win several games for us. The TD by Raji in the NFC title game, the INT by Williams at the end of the Philly playoff game, the 4th down hold by our D at the end of the SB. Had any one of those not happened, we may not have gone any farther then "one and done" in the playoffs....or not even MAKE the playoffs.
(I also think Ben is over rated though. I agree with that)

Who here thinks this marriage will last more then one year? (I don't)
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DakotaT
14 years ago
The only reason Bradshaw sniffs the top 15 of all time was the four super bowl rings that he "drove the car" for. He wasn't a "good" quarterback, he was an adequate game manager with a strong arm, blessed with great receivers who went up and got the balls he hung up. Chuck Nole was a great coach and their defense were intimidators, who some might call borderline dirty. Ask a Houston Oiler fan if they even deserved to be in a couple of those super bowls.
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vikesrule
14 years ago

...Of course, I have a real problem giving Socrates Bradshaw any credit either. They should put asterisks by QB winners whose defenses carried the team and that includes Joe Montana's vicotory over the Bengals.

"DakotaT" wrote:



In that case you had better break out some more of those asterisks little buddy.

Terry Bradshaw > Bart Starr

Ray Nitschke and the Packers defense carried Starr.

Bart Starr should be benched 
With a mediocre college career, it's no surprise that Starr fell to the 200th pick in the 1956 NFL draft.....
.....As a first-time starter the Packers went just 3-8 in Starr's starts.
Even worse, in two of Starr's wins as a starter, it was backup Babe Parilli who was the hero, throwing the game-winning touchdowns against Chicago and Baltimore. ....

If Starr was ever going to become something, 1958 was the year. Fans don't give four years to first round picks, let alone 17th round picks. So how did Starr do?
If you like numbers, he was 78 for 157 (49.7%), threw 3 TDs against 12 INTs and averaged just 5.6 yards per attempt....

Lest you forget, Starr went 0-3-1 in the Packers first four games, before being replaced by Babe Parilli....










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