NFL upholds Brady's four-game suspension for role in 'Deflategate'
ByReuters
Updated 28/07/2015 at 19:25 GMT
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension given to quarterback Tom Brady for his role in a scheme to deflate the footballs in the AFC championship game that put the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
New England Patriots star Tom Brady has had his appeal into a four-game NFL ban heard in New York
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Brady, one of the National Football League's most popular players and in many ways the face of the sport, could take the case to federal court in a bid to overturn to the suspension.
NFL-hired investigator Ted Wills determined, in a 243-page report, that Brady was complicit in a plan to deflate the footballs below league standards, a move that can make the ball easier to grip.
Attorneys for Brady, 37, a four-time Super Bowl champion, had previously indicated that if the quarterback is suspended at all they would take the case to federal court.
The Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 in January's AFC title game, a game played in raw conditions in which the ball might have been difficult for a quarterback to grip.
Brady has denied any knowledge of a plan to deflate the footballs, a program Wells said was carried out by two Patriots employees, officials' locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski.
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