FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Ben Roethlisberger says he "wasn't surprised at all" by a federal judge's decision last week to overturn Tom Brady's suspension, allowing the New England Patriots' star quarterback to face Roethlisberger's Pittsburgh Steelers in Thursday night's season opener.
"I just felt like the league had done something without really – you know, and I wasn't big in looking at all the details, this and that," Roethlisberger said Sunday morning on a conference call with reporters. "Maybe just more of a feeling -- of an inkling -- and knowing that the commissioner jumped to a pretty harsh punishment.