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Ben Roethlisberger: I wasn't a good teammate

Ben Roethlisberger had a bad reputation as a young player that had nothing to do with his legal troubles. Whispers followed him everywhere that he wasn't well liked by his Steelers teammates.

Roethlisberger admits now that he deserved it.

"I'd be the first to admit I wasn't a good teammate early in my career," Roethlisberger told Dan Pompeii in an interesting piece for Bleacher Report. "With time, you understand you can't keep being a selfish player or person. It's the ultimate team sport, and in order to be successful, you have to be selfless.