Deflategate, the scandal/farce that never sleeps. Last week, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's highly-touted team of lawyers filed a petition to rehear his case against the NFL, after the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sided with the league in early April and reinstated Brady's four-game suspension.
Since the filing, Brady and his petition has seen support via amicus briefs – filings by literal "friends of the court", parties not involved in the case – filed by a group of more than 20 scientists from universities around the country and the Patriots themselves.