ST. PETERSBURG — Good news: Tom Brady will sit for the first four games of the season.
Bad news: It destroys our marble-stepped fantasies of Brady going deep, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
The tailgate party with Patriots fans wearing Roger Goodell and Earl Warren masks. The Oliver Wendell Brady-Ruth Bader Ginsburg matchup box. And there's Ben Affleck's amicus brief. Not that we'd see it. They don't allow videotaping during Supreme Court arguments.
Yeah, like that would stop the Patriots.
What a waste of time.
This case finally appears to be closed and Brady appears ready to be suspended, though he reportedly has granted the NFL Players Association permission to continue the fight.