Tom Brady Suspended Over Deflated Super Bowl Balls

Tom Brady Suspended Over Super Bowl Deflation

Life comes at you fast. After months of scandal surrounding Tom Brady’s suspiciously light Super Bowl footballs that ultimately helped propel The Patriots into a victory over the Seahawks, both the QB and the team have officially been penalized by the NFL for his role in “Deflategate.” Via TMZ:

Tom Brady has been suspended the first 4 games of the 2015 NFL season for his role in Deflategate … TWICE the suspension the league initially gave Ray Rice for beating a woman.

The NFL just issued a statement saying, “Tom Brady will be suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2015 regular season for conduct detrimental to the integrity of the NFL.”

“Brady may participate in all off-season, training camp and pre-season activities, including pre-season games.”
The league also dropped the hammer on the New England Patriots — hitting the team with a $1 MILLION fine … and taking away their 1st round pick in the 2016 Draft and their 4th round pick in 2017.

The two locker room attendants who are believed to have deflated the balls have also been suspended indefinitely without pay.

Cold world. Here’s an excerpt from the letter NFL Executive VP of Operations Troy Vincent wrote to Tom Brady about their decision:

“[There is] substantial and credible evidence to conclude you were at least generally aware of the actions of the Patriots’ employees involved in the deflation of the footballs and that it was unlikely that their actions were done without your knowledge.

Moreover, the report documents your failure to cooperate fully and candidly with the investigation, including by refusing to produce any relevant electronic evidence (emails, texts, etc.), despite being offered extraordinary safeguards by the investigators to protect unrelated personal information, and by providing testimony that the report concludes was not plausible and contradicted by other evidence.

Your actions as set forth in the report clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football.”

Well there you have it! Do you think this decision was fair? Should The Patriots have have had their championship win taken from them too?