one year later, the NFL’s lies still largely trump the truth in every region of the country except New England.
Though NFL attorneys have written a plethora of legal briefs and arguments over the past 12 months, the league still hasn’t proven the Patriots illegally tampered with their footballs during last year’s AFC Championship. Judge Richard Berman
nullified Brady’s four-game suspension in early September, citing a lack of precedent for the punishment and an unfair arbitration process. The NFL quickly announced it would
appeal Judge Berman’s ruling, and opening arguments for that case, which is solely about the scope of commissioner Roger Goodell’s disciplinary authority, won’t begin until March.
This season, in an apparent effort to learn more about the science of ball deflation, the NFL announced it would
test PSI on a random basis. But the league hasn’t released any of this information yet and reportedly is
still considering whether to make any of it public. Six days before this year’s AFC Championship, most sports fans are still relaying on misinformation and
disputed scientific evidence to frame their opinions on Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback of all-time.