I was reading through non-football news today and received a facepalm-inducing reminder of how the league pushed DeflateGate until it got way out of hand.
Back in the final days of DeflateGate, when the NFL Players Association was considering bringing the labor dispute to the Supreme Court, both the NFLPA and the NFL hired big name lawyers to help their cases.
The NFLPA hired Ted Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to serve as counsel after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision by Judge Richard Berman and reinstated the four-game suspension of New England Patriots QB Tom Brady.