Tom Brady will not petition to Supreme Court

Tom Brady announced via Facebook that he will not be taking his Deflategate case to the Supreme Court.

After the United States Court of Appeals denied his petition for rehearing of his Deflategate punishment, which the courts had reinstated after initially vacating the suspension, Tom Brady and his counsel were expected to petition to the United States Supreme Court. Brady announced on Facebook that he will not be doing so.

Barring Brady deciding to change his mind, this likely means that Brady will serve his four game suspension to start the season. One thing that might cause him to change his mind is the Adrian Peterson case. While the two cases might be different, Brady would have a legitimate reason to petition the Supreme Court depending on the ruling of Peterson’s case.

Losing Brady is never a good thing for the Patriots. However, this might wind up being good for them. Brady will come out of the suspension determined to prove everybody wrong once again. He will have an ever larger chip on his shoulder than he usually does. The Patriots tend to play better when they’re sticking it to everybody. Nobody adopts an “us against the world” mentality better than the Patriots and nobody uses it to their advantage like them.

It is likely that Brady’s case has brought out the errors in letting NFL commissioner have so much control over players and their punishments. Expect that to get ironed out when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.

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