If you were hoping DeflateGate was finally over well unfortunately you’re wrong. In fact it’s going to follow us into next year. Tom Brady won his appeal which nullified his four-game suspension which allowed him to play week 1 this season. Rather than let it end there, the NFL decided to appeal as well. They hoped to expedite the process but that’s not going to happen.
via ProFootballTalk:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has said that oral arguments won’t happen until February 1 at the earliest. With the Super Bowl set for February 7th, there’s no way a final ruling will be reached before the current football season ends.
Moving forward, the key word is “final.” Beyond the initial decision from a three-judge panel that will be assigned to the case in the Second Circuit, additional levels of appeal are available, culminating in the submission of a petition to the United States Supreme Court. Along the way, the case could be sent back to Judge Richard Berman, who has not ruled on several open questions about the fitness of Commissioner Roger Goodell to serve as the arbitrator in the Brady case.
It therefore remains possible that the Brady case won’t be fully and finally resolved until he has retired.
Hopefully it won’t go that far.
