The National Football League Players Association has added Theodore B. Olson to its legal team in the important fight to prevent quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo from starting four games for the New England Patriots in the coming season.
A lot must be riding on the outcome, because Olson, a former Solicitor General of the United States who has argued 62 cases before the Supreme Court, doesn't come cheap. He's pretty good, though, having won three-quarters of those cases, and he covered the spread in a bunch of the others. He's best known for his outright in Bush v. Gore in 2000, but if he can get Tom Brady off this time, well, we're talking the grandest feather in a fine legal cap.