BUTLER TWP — Dakota Dickey of Slippery Rock realizes he is less than a year younger than the man that millions of people will be watching Sunday night, but he doesn't think he could do his job.

Students at Butler County Community College think Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will stand up under the pressure of all that comes of the Super Bowl, but they wouldn't want to be in his shoes.

At just 23, Roethlisberger will close out his second season playing professional football with the biggest game of the year when the Steelers battle the Seattle Seahawks.

"I think he's done a good job so far," said Dickey, while admitting he doesn't feel mature enough to handle the pressure of the Super Bowl spotlight.

Neither does Stephanie Clouse.

"If it's more than 10 people watching, I can't handle it," said the student from North Oakland.

Dan Holloway said he thought it was the pressure of Pittsburgh fans he couldn't take.

Jessie Cochran of Slippery Rock said the only way she would like to play quarterback is if she was guaranteed a win.

"I wouldn't want to risk losing," Cochran said.

Adding to the pressure of a big game are all the fans who think Steelers running back Jerome Bettis should return to Pittsburgh with a Super Bowl ring, said Cochran's friend, Brittany Sauka of Butler.

Clouse said she would never want to have an entire city expecting her to win the team's fifth Super Bowl.

But, Roethlisberger seems confident, Cochran said, and she thinks Roethlisberger is one of the few people of his age who can handle the stress.

Adam Snyder of Mercer said Roethlisberger has a special talent to handle the national attention.

"He's blessed with God's gift to be able to do that," Snyder said. He added the quarterback has survived the pressure of big games in the pros and in college.

"He's a professional, that's his job," Snyder said. But Snyder wouldn't want that job, he said.

Drue Flora of New Castle, who attends Slippery Rock University, said even his high school quarterbacking days can't give him much of an insight into such a big game.

"I would just freak out," he said. "You would have to rely on the veterans of the team."

Josh Rausch, 20, of New Castle, also a SRU student, said he just hopes Roethlisberger trusts in other players during the Super Bowl and doesn't put extra pressure on himself.

"He did that last season and tried to do everything himself," said Rausch, also an SRU student.

There are mitigating circumstances that might make some people accept the pressure.

"For a couple million a year, I could suck it up," Dickey said.

Eagle staff writer Kris Miller contributed to this report.