Appeals court reinstates Brady’s 4-game ban

The Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals dropped the hammer back on Tom Brady and the Patriots Monday morning, reinstating the four-game suspension levied by the NFL against Brady from the Deflategate investigation.

From the ruling, filed Monday morning:

We hold that the Commissioner properly exercised his broad discretion under the collective bargaining agreement and that his procedural rulings were properly grounded in that agreement and did not deprive Brady of fundamental fairness. Accordingly, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and REMAND with instructions to confirm the award.

Brady is suspened the first four games of the 2016 NFL season as a result.

Here are six more things to know about the decision:

Do the judges think Brady deflated the footballs?

Nope! They don’t even care about the whole Deflategate thing, in fact. The judges only care about the process involved with the way the NFL and the NFLPA negotiated the discipline process. Roger Goodell is judge, jury and executioner, which is absurd, but it’s the way things are set up in the CBA.

The judges even called Goodell’s power “unorthodox” but also called it “mutually satisfactory” because it was negotiated by the two parties.

The Commissioner was authorized to impose discipline for, among other things, “conduct …

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