Ortiz fundraises with profane ugly Christmas sweater
It's shaping up to be a Big Papi Christmas.
With ugly Christmas sweaters becoming all the rage in the last couple of years, retired Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is getting in on the craze in the best way he knows:
David Ortiz launched an ugly sweater on @teespring w/proceeds benefiting The David Ortiz Children's Fund pic.twitter.com/IX3c6qPgxC
— Darren Heitner (@DarrenHeitner) December 1, 2016
Partnering with clothing manufacturer TeeSpring, Ortiz's new sweater channels his infamous speech made after the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, where he did his part to restore faith in the Fenway Park crowd with a similar expletive-fueled line:
(Video courtesy: MLB.com)
Proceeds from sweater sales will go to the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, a foundation created by the veteran to supply life-saving surgery to children in New England and the Dominican Republic born with congenital heart disease.