Will Tom Brady take NFL to court over Deflategate suspension?

The NFL has decided to uphold its four-game suspension of Tom Brady, but the Patriots quarterback might end up taking the league to court.

When the NFL originally suspended New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for four games following the Deflategate verdict, fans doubted that the ban would hold up. Our confidence in the Brady suspension was weakened furthermore by the fact that domestic abuser Greg Hardy had his 10-game suspension reduced to the same amount handed out to Brady for deflating footballs.

It would be about as tone-deaf as it gets to suspend the two players the exact same amount of games for two wildly different crimes. One is a crime against the golden rules of the NFL, and the other is a crime against humanity. If you think Brady deflating footballs falls under the latter category, please go back to huffing lead paint and licking windows.

But leave it to the NFL to royally screw up yet another suspension by being as utterly tone deaf as humanly possible. We get that integrity of the game is important, but so too is making sure your players are violently abusing women — because apparently they’re the same thing.

With Brady’s suspension upheld, the the next step for the quarterback is to take the league to court. He has the grounds to do so and sue the NFL in federal court, but the question is will he?

Brady just accepting a four game suspension for this doesn’t seem to be the type of thing he’d do. Add into that the fact that he’s getting the same suspension that someone who not only beats women but threatens their lives with a bed full of loaded weapons got.

There may not be a ton of evidence to support that Tom Brady is innocent here, but the fact of the matter is this in no longer about what Brady did it’s about how long he should be suspended. There is no doubt that Brady deserves punishment for at the very least wasting our time — but not the same amount that Hardy got.

Now, this wades into interesting waters about whether this is about Brady’s suspension or the NLF buckling to an abuser and lowering Hardy’s ban. Sure, the original suspension for Hardy was 10-games, and it was lowered to four. But saying that Hardy’s suspension is 10-games and that’s the standard Brady is being held up against is bulls–t and it’s transparent bullsh–t.

How many glue sticks do you need to eat to see the issue with the two separate offenses carrying the same suspension?

This isn’t about Brady being suspended anymore, it’s about how badly the NFL judges their suspensions on a case-by-case basis. Tom Brady should and probably will sue the hell out of the NFL to get his suspension reduced to zero games. He may deserve a suspension but the NFL has badly bungled this process and have screwed themselves out of being in a position of authority thanks to being as phenomenally tone deaf as it gets.

The NFL is trying to not look weak by reducing Brady’s already harsh suspension, but in the process of reducing Hardy’s suspension to the same amount of games that Brady’s is, the NFL couldn’t look more weak that it does right now.

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