NEW YORK -- High-powered and successful attorney Jeff Kessler -- an all-pro in the legal community if there ever was one -- never saw the blindside hit coming.
But less than two seconds after he had just completed the traditional "May it please the court" opening line that is made by attorneys as they begin to make their arguments, a judge tossed Kessler aside.
How is it, Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, that Kessler argued in one court that the NFL's uniform and equipment policy did not apply to the deflation of footballs by the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady, but he was trying to argue in briefs filed with Chin's appellate court just the opposite?