Tom Brady's attorney Jeffrey Kessler was grilled by judges during the opening day of the NFL's appeal seeking to reinstate the quarterback's four-game suspension for allegedly deflating footballs.
Paul Clement for the NFL and Jeffrey Kessler for the players union representing Brady were supposed to get 15 minutes to argue their positions at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Instead Chief judge Robert A. Katzmann, judge Barrington D. Parker and judge Denny Chin peppered the lawyers with questions.
Kessler in particular received pointed questions by the judges and judge Chin said evidence of ball tampering was "compelling, if not overwhelming.