Brady’s four game suspension for his part in the New England Patriots’ Deflategate case from a year ago was reinstated by a U.S. appeals court Monday.
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An appeals court has reinstated Tom Brady’s four-game suspension due to the “Deflategate” scandal from the 2014 AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.
But that doesn’t mean the New England Patriots definitely won’t have their four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback the first month of the season.
The ruling can be appealed to the full 2nd Circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it would be costly and time-consuming.
“By appealing to the court system the NFLPA is challenging the power a CBA actually has by asking a judge to overrule Goodell”. He told Fox’s Bill Hemmer that Goodell ultimately got what he wanted in this decision in that the 2nd Circuit found he acted within his authority.
Two owners reportedly told Bleacher Report’s Jason Cole on Tuesday that the four-game suspension handed out to Brady is “too harsh”. “They reaffirmed our authority and the underlying facts of the case, so we think we came out in the right place”, Goodell said Wednesday after a youth football clinic prior to the NFL draft.
The Texans game is a Thursday night contest, which Matcovich said usually leads to lower prices during the course of the National Football League season for all teams compared to Sunday or Monday games.
Brady’s lawyers continue to argue that his suspension was largely unfair for an involvement in a scheme to deflate footballs used in a playoff game. The three-judge panel sided 2-1 with the NFL, saying the league’s discipline was properly grounded in the collective bargaining agreement and Brady was treated fairly, Huffpost Sports reports. The NFLPA was seeking independent arbitration for players’ appeals of disciplinary measures imposed by the NFL under the integrity-of-the-game rules, as in Brady’s case, and under the personal conduct policy, as in the Rice, Peterson and Hardy cases.
Tom Brady won Round 1.
“This season, the NFL spot-checked inflation levels of footballs, and then refused to make the data public”, Jenkins wrote.
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The court even pointed to Brady’s destruction of his cellphone as an obstruction of the NFL’s investigation, and thus cause for suspicion and suspension. “With all due respect, Mr. Brady’s explanation of that made no sense whatsoever”, The Big Story has cited.
