Excerpted from Yahoo News Sports 

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Ben Roethlisberger signed an eight-year extension worth $102 million with the Pittsburgh Steelers that makes him one of the NFL’s highest-paid players.

The deal includes more than $36 million guaranteed, and keeps Roethlisberger with the Steelers through 2015.

“Ben has been an outstanding leader on the field for the Steelers since his rookie year and we are very happy to know that he will be our quarterback for many years to come,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said Monday in a statement.

You know, no matter what jersey this guy ends up wearing he’s still overpaid.  How can you get this much to throw a damn ball around?  Why don’t we pay teachers this kind of money, or better yet dump that money into the education system.  Come on, what these guys do can barely be called work.  Just because they can run around and slam into each other is no reason to pay them hundreds of millions of dollars.  Gimme a break!