Now, we wait.
Tom Brady and his legal team presented their case to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday to clear the quarterback’s name in the Deflategate scandal. Should Brady not receive the answer he seeks from Goodell — i.e., total exoneration including rescinding his four-game suspension — he could bring the case before a federal judge.
According to legal experts reached yesterday, the success of that maneuver will hinge on several main points of contention.
“The most significant hurdle for Brady would be that his union, the National Football League Players Association, acquiesced to a personal conduct policy in the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement that accords Goodell with broad powers,” said Michael McCann, director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.