David Ortiz On Tom Brady Missing Four Games For DeflateGate: 'I Would Turn Off The TV'
BOSTON (CBS) -- Red Sox slugger David Ortiz held a Q&A with Sports Illustrated, and between questions about statues and buffalo wings, he fielded a question about Tom Brady and his four-game suspension for his alleged role in DeflateGate.
Ortiz tends to agree that Brady is getting a "raw deal" with the punishment handed down to him by the NFL, regardless of whatever he did or did not do.
"I think it's stupid, to be honest with you," said Ortiz, who can't believe that the league would remove one of its best, most popular players from TV screens for four weeks - an unprecedented penalty, given the nature of the Patriots' alleged violations.
"Put it this way: You're talking about the one player that everybody wants to watch play. We're not just talking about any player. We're talking about Tom Brady," Ortiz continued. "If I turn on the TV on Sunday to watch a Patriots game and I know that Tom Brady is not playing, I would turn off the TV. I don't want to watch that game."
Add Ortiz to the list of people surprised by the league's treatment of Brady throughout the entire DeflateGate saga. He probably won't be alone in his desire to avoid watching the Patriots' first four games if Brady ultimately has to sit them out.