PITTSBURGH – Ben Roethlisberger is pretty sure there isn't a technical term for what doctors did to his shredded right elbow last fall.
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback is pretty sure about one thing though: no one who has ever played his position has ever recovered from it well enough to continue throwing a football for a living.Yet the 38-year-old is confident he will be the first.
Maybe it's because the pain that led to three flexor tendons rupturing late in the first half against Seattle last September is gone.
Maybe it's because he's leaner than he's been since his mid-20s. Maybe it's because he plays for a team with a defense that kept the Steelers in the playoff mix well into December without their longtime captain.