Tom Brady’s Deflated Balls Destined For The Supreme Court? That’s The Plan

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady may soon be able to add civic hero to his list of titles. An estimated two-thirds of Americans can’t name a single U.S. Supreme Court case, something that could soon change thanks to Brady’s infamously deflated balls.

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In April the U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated the NFL’s four-game suspension of Brady, which had been previously overturned. Brady hired a new lawyer, Ted Olson, in the wake of the 2-1 decision against him, and it’s safe to say Tom Brady v. the NFL now has next to nothing to do with Deflategate.

According to ABC News, Olson has already petitioned the same court for a rehearing en banc, which asks “all available judges on the high court consider his plight and reverse their colleagues’ earlier decision.” An event so rare there have been just three en banc hearings in the 2nd Circuit over the last five years.

Regardless of how things play out for Brady in the 2nd Circuit, he seems to be gearing up in earnest for a potential Supreme Court showdown. Olson has reportedly “argued 62 cases in the high court, prevailing in 75 percent of them.” ESPN’s Lester Munson referred to the man as the Tom Brady of constitutional law.

Speaking of entertaining hyperbole, Olson is already assembling an all-star team to fight a football suspension he describes as threatening the “rule of law” and an “egregious misstatement” of American employment law. He also called Goodell “biased, agenda-driven, and self-approving.”

And here you thought this was nothing more than a pissing contest between two men whose egos and financial resources know no bounds. That assessment of Goodell could not be more spot on.

At this point the question of Brady’s guilt or innocence with regard to his balls is borderline irrelevant, at least as far as his legal supporters are concerned.

Although they maintain belief that “nobody tampered with the footballs,” they insist Brady was the victim of a “highly manipulated and fundamentally unfair process designed and used by the commissioner to reach and justify a predetermined outcome.”

In reframing the entire case, not as a dispute over PSI in footballs used in a blowout victory over 18 months ago and a lack of cooperation in the subsequent investigation, but rather a serious affront to U.S. labor law, Brady’s legal team is hoping to improve the remote chance of making it to the high court.

Each year the Supreme Court hears between 70 and 80 cases of the 8,000 petitions they receive. While on the surface those odds don’t exactly favor Brady, we all know the Golden Boy has a history of coming up in the biggest of ways when the odds are stacked against him.

How else does one become the smuggest person on earth?