A US District appeals court ruled in favor of the NFL and Commisioner Goodell to uphold the suspension levied on Tom Brady for his alleged role as mastermind of the Deflategate scandal. One full season after Bob Kravitz lit the world on fire with his tweet regarding potentially deflated footballs, it's come to this. Brady will be out the first four games of the 2016 NFL season barring a legal miracle.
It's difficult to articulate the emotions I feel about this court decision. Part of me feels dead inside. I'm so sick of this story. How much longer is this supposed to go on? This saga has been going on for 16 months now. I'm over it. I think we're all just about over it.
A whole different part of me feels an immense boiling hot anger that we have to go through this whole rigmarole again from fans and media about how the Patriots have been exposed as cheaters and that Tom Brady's legacy is somehow tarnished because of a statistically insignificant amount of air pressure lost in a football game. More months of terribly unfunny "Ron Grady" memes. More months of "defending the wall". More months of stories about a 7th grader from Newburyport proved the Patriots innocence at his science fair. It's exhausting. It's embarrassing. It's the worst. Everything about Deflategate is the worst. Of course, I want Brady to fight. If he wins, jubilation. If he loses, well, at least its over.
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