<p>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger all but announced his retirement this weekend following a playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.</p>
<p>The QB thanked God for blessing him with his career in the NFL, but emphasized that the next &#8220;chapter&#8221; of his life will focus on his family and expanding &#8220;God&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to do everything I can to be the best husband and father I can be and try to expand God&#8217;s kingdom,&#8221; Roethlisberger said, <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/entertainment/2022/january/god-has-blessed-me-roethlisberger-just-said-goodbye-to-the-nfl-and-hello-to-gods-kingdom">according</a> to CBN News.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tough. I&#8217;m proud to have played with these guys,&#8221; he told the media following the loss. &#8220;God has blessed me with an ability to throw a football and has blessed me to play in the greatest city, Pittsburgh, with the greatest fans and the greatest football team and players, and it&#8217;s just been truly a blessing and I&#8217;m so thankful to him for the opportunity that he&#8217;s given me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been here a long time, and it&#8217;s been a lot of fun,&#8221; Roethlisberger continued. &#8220;Like I said, God has blessed me … It was meant to be that I was going to wear black and gold. Draft day I had a black suit on with a gold tie. I&#8217;m just so thankful.&#8221;</p>
<p>“I mean, shoot, we thought last week was going to be the end,” he said. “We got blessed to play another football game. Didn&#8217;t end the way we wanted it to, but it&#8217;s a blessing to play this football game. How lucky are we that we get to play football for a living? We have to count our blessings.”</p>
<p>Roethlisberger told the media he&#8217;s &#8220;excited&#8221; about what the future holds.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nervous. No, I am excited. Just because I get to go home tonight. I assume we&#8217;re going to make it out and get home. We&#8217;ve got snow and so the kids are already playing and tubing and doing sledding and stuff,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So being a husband and father, you never take a day off. You got to keep going. And so, as we move from one chapter to the next, it&#8217;s going to be different, but it&#8217;s going to be fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a new challenge, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>According to CBN News, Roethlisberger has only recently become outspoken about his Christian beliefs.</p>
<p>&#8220;Three years ago I got baptized,&#8221; Roethlisberger announced at a ManUp Conference in 2020. &#8220;I was baptized as a kid; my parents took me as a baby. But I didn&#8217;t make that decision. So three years ago now I made the decision to be baptized because I felt like I needed to do that. I wanted to have a closer walk, a better relationship with Jesus, with my wife, with my kids, with my family — become a better person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So I think the person that brought me to Him was Jesus. Jesus is the One who brought me back to Him, and I&#8217;m so thankful for it because I feel I&#8217;m a better Christian, a better husband, and a better father today because of His forgiveness of me,&#8221; he told attendees.</p>
<p>Roethlisberger faced challenges before his baptism, namely sexual assault allegations, which the QB firmly denied and never faced criminal charges for.</p>
<p>Back in 2009, the NFL star was accused of sexual assault by a casino employee. The QB vehemently <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/roethlisberger-vehemently-denies-casino-employee-s-rape-allegat-09000d5d8116e5b4">denied</a> the allegation, which he called &#8220;false&#8221; and &#8220;vicious.&#8221; The accuser never filed a criminal charge but filed a civil lawsuit against Roethlisberger for nearly half a million dollars. The case was <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/7485346/settlement-reached-ben-roethlisberger-civil-lawsuit">settled</a> in 2012.</p>
<p>Roethlisberger was later accused of sexual assault by a 20-year-old woman in a night club. Due to lack of evidence, the QB was <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=5078589">never charged</a>.</p>
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