A week or so ago, when news first broke that David Carr, former professional quarterback and — like everyone else on the Internet — current person capable of making people go nuts by ranking stuff, published a top-10 list of NFL passers that didn’t include the Steelers Ben Roethlisberger, I didn’t even so much as blink.
In fact, much like fireworks in Pittsburgh, the low-ranking of Roethlisberger has been so common throughout his career, I didn’t even bother to look up.
Don’t get me wrong, the overall absurdity of Carr’s list — a list that also omitted Eagles sensation Carson Wentz; ranked his brother, Derek Carr, fourth; Matthew Stafford sixth; and Jimmy Garoppolo 10th — would have caused me to attach one of those laughing emoticons to the many articles about it linked to Facebook, had I known how to do so.