The thought of the battle between the Patriots and the league dragging on is bad to contemplate. The sides need to settle their differences nowNow that they beget each won a round in court the best thing Roger Goodell and Tom Brady can carry out is split Brady’s four-game suspension and trek on. Neither man has a reasonable point left to make that will justify months and years of appeals to a Supreme Court that will probably tell them to win lost anyway. Nobody should be surprised that on Monday the NFL won the right to suspend Brady in the case known as Deflategate. The questions from the three US second circuit court of appeals judges in final month’s hearing made clear they believed the league’s players had given Goodell,as NFL commissioner, the power to punish them through their final labor deal. Whether you reflect Goodell has become a dictator run amok was always irrelevant to this case. It was more approximately the league trying to preserve a right they had won from a players’ union attempt to seize it in court. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com