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‘It Was Always Mr. Rooney’: Roethlisberger Discusses No Music Tradition

The Steelers downfall as of late has been exemplified by a few comments this week. Perhaps no comment attracted more displeasure than Chase Claypool’s suggestion to add music to practice.

As a result, former players have voiced their opinions on the topic. Ben Roethlisberger spoke Wednesday on the Steelers tradition of having no music in the locker room.

“It was always Mr. [Dan] Rooney. It was always that way. As guys started to leave the locker room that had that tradition, I tried to keep it going,” Roethlisberger said via the Steelers’ page. “Brett Keisel kept it going for awhile and we had Pouncey and guys like that to keep it going.