Pittsburgh. Home of the Steel Curtain defense, Iron City beer and the Roethlisberger….burger? Chaos ensued late Thursday night at famed local eatery Pepe’s when a teenager who worked there vicously attacked a customer over an order for the sandwich named after Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. “He just wouldn’t stop,” said the accused attacker Kevin Lang as he was led away by police. “He kept asking me for a Roethlisberger Burger, but we don’t have that. It’s just a Roethlis-burger.”
The victim’s name is Rob Marrow, 56, of Cleveland, Ohio. “I’m a Browns fan, so I wanted to bust chops a little bit about the sandwich, but in no way did I deserve to be smacked across the face with a table tray. That was uncalled for,” said Marrow. Witnesses in the restaurant looked on in horror as Marrow fell to the ground after being struck by an irate Lang. Lang was immediately taken into custody by the local authorities present in the restaurant.
This is not the first time that the sandwich made up of sausage, hamburger meat, fried egg, cheese, lettuce and tomato has caused a controversy. After a Jets 19-16 win over the Steelers at Giants Stadium in 2007 a Jets fan threw a three day old Roethlis-burger in the direction of the Steelers bench, striking head coach Mike Tomlin.
At this point, Pepe’s is not considering changing the name of the sandwich. Calls to Ben Roethlisberger's agents Ryan and Bruce Tollner regarding this matter were not immediately returned.
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