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DeflateGate: Quick Hit Thoughts on First Court Hearing

The first hearing of Brady vs. NFL is over. Here are the first takeaways.

A new chapter in the Deflategate saga has been written today. It is titled "first court hearing" and its main protagonists are New York Southern District Judge Richard M. Berman, NFL attorney Daniel Nash and NFLPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler. The genre: somewhere between thriller and comedy.

Here are some very early takeaways from the public portion of today's hearing:

1) Judge Berman once again made clear he wants a settlement.

The first part of the session was closed to public and held in the Judge's robing room.