Newspaper covers troll Roger Goodell, NFL over Tom Brady’s win
By Tom West
Tom Brady has well and truly undermined NFL commissioner Roger Goodell this week, and the New York press didn’t hold any punches with their headlines.
The heavily debated Deflategate scandal has been shrouding the NFL in a cloud of dispute for months. Yet, after Tom Brady won his appeal this week and had his four-game suspension nullified, the authority and respect that anyone will have for commissioner Roger Goodell has been undermined in spectacular fashion.
Brady’s name and the reputation of the New England Patriots themselves has been tainted ever since issues such as the Spygate controversy. So, despite their victory in court this week, some won’t change their opinion that the four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback and his Patriots dynasty are nothing more than cheaters.
This hasn’t stopped the New York press from relishing in the moment of his court victory, though.
Whilst remarks to Tom Brady having the balls in his controversial relationship with the NFL may be disliked by those who think he cheated, it’s not exactly far from the truth. The boxing pun on the legendary 1981 Martin Scorsese classic, “Raging Bull”, by the New York Daily News is a particularly swift shot to the image of Goodell. For a lack of a better expression, the press didn’t hold any punches.
I would say that Brady’s victory left Goodell totally and utterly deflated, but those jokes have been used too much so let’s just move on.
The judge’s decision to remove Brady’s suspension so that he can play in the Patriot’s season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers has backed Roger Goodell so brutally into a corner that endless appeals and disagreement to the ruling will likely only hurt his reputation further. However, the NFL will still appeal the decision, as has been reported by ESPN.
No matter how it turns out for the NFL, Brady has won and Goodell looks more miserable than ever. After countless issues that he’s failed to deal with to even a remotely respectable standard over the last year or so — from the infamous Ray Rice incident to numerous individual player charges that the league has dealt with — Tom Brady’s courtroom victory was the knockout punch to Roger Goodell’s authority before the start of the 2015-16 NFL regular season.
New England, you can rejoice. Enjoy those newspaper headlines while you’re at it.
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