This is my Thursday column on the NFL’s suspension of Tom Brady.
Roger Goodell may have fired his final bullet.
On Tuesday, the Commissioner of the NFL upheld his decision to suspend New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady four games for allegedly conspiring with team equipment managers to deflate footballs in the AFC Championship game.
The NFL released a 20-page statement claiming Brady destroyed his cell phone “on or shortly before March 6, the day that Brady met with independent investigator Ted Wells and his colleagues . . . (Brady) did so even though he was aware that the investigators had requested access to text messages and other electronic information that had been stored on that phone.