WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — If this was a prize fight, the referee would be issuing a mandatory eight count to Roger Goodell and the NFL, given the highlights of yesterday’s Manhattan court session.
At this stage, we’re well past the standing eight count. Goodell and his team are down on the mat and perilously close to being knocked out the way these proceedings have gone, with judge Richard Berman once again hammering away at the Wells Report and the NFL commissioner by extension.
Berman called it a “quantum leap” to go from Tom Brady being “generally aware” of ball deflation to Goodell referring to the Patriots quarterback as essentially being the ringleader of a “scheme,” as the commissioner alleged in his appeal ruling that upheld Brady’s four-game suspension.