NFL | Is it over … is DeflateGate really over? Aww, shucks (not really)

by Jack Kerwin  |  ydkjack1@gmail.com

Yo, deflate this …

After 18 months of idolizing minions rationalizing their hero’s “innocence” because he steered clear of a rule only a little bit while simultaneously proclaiming such a rule need not exist, heck, even for other lesser beings in their eyes, the legal silliness has ended.

The gauntlet has been gently placed down. Forever may it rest.

Thank you, Tom Freakin’ Brady.

With Friday’s announcement, via social media, of course, that Brady had given his lawyers the cease-fire signal in regards to his DeflateGate defense, the NFL’s most ridiculous story this side of myriad ones involving domestic violence since the last time members of the New England Patriots got caught cheating came to a raggedy conclusion.

Don’t worry about eating your heart out, John Grisham.

Sorry that we’re not dancing here in the palatial offices of YDKJ at the end result, but the league and its most recognizable star got exactly what they had coming to them.

Absolute … meh.

Not for nothing, but the support Brady received during all this bordered on the bizarre. Check that, it busted down that wall and then started pushing hard and heavy against obscene. Yeah, we get it, special dispensation for special guys. But there comes a point where the evidence and the growing list of those backing the prosecution kinda outweigh that.

You know, like even to where leading physicists going all pretzel logic about their own trade to bail out a big name ultimately holds little weight.

Argue the merits all you want about the effects of taking some air out of a football – with those of you saying it offers “no help” to those trying to grip it and throw it getting specially signed autographed photos by No. 12 – but the reality is this: the NFL has a rule on how much/how little air can be in a ball, and Brady was proven to be complicit in tampering with that during games.

Case closed. Guilty as charged.

Should have been open and shut, at the latest, this time a year ago. With Brady serving his duly noted four-game suspension during the 2015 season.

But, alas, both sides opted to volley through the court system and we got an extended play of “Free Tom Brady” idiocy as only deep-thinking fans can provide when trying to protect their emotional investment, as the four-time Super Bowl champ and millionaire many times over struggled to “keep it together” while being sequestered away in whatever mansion of his choosing.

Pardon me. Gotta barf a bit here …

The NFL may join because it ain’t exactly coming out spotless in this, either. Frankly, Roger Goodell and his cronies helped create a double-standard monster here in the first place, with turning a blind eye to some individuals or teams and not others whenever things would turn up amiss.

Add in the commish’s ever-slumping PR cred to the mix and it’s easy to see why so many did not want the league to “win.”

Funny thing is, it didn’t anyway, having its named dragged through the mud the better part of two calendar years and now, having emerged victorious in a legal battle, what did it get for its efforts?

Its signature player on its signature franchise out for a month in 2016.

As far as prizes go, kinda deflating …

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Should have been open and shut, at the latest, this time a year ago. With Brady serving his duly noted four-game suspension during the 2015 season. But, alas, both sides opted to volley through the court system and we got an extended play of “Free Tom Brady” idiocy as only deep-thinking fans can provide when trying to protect their emotional investment, as the four-time Super Bowl champ and millionaire many times over struggled to “keep it together” while being sequestered away in whatever mansion of his choosing. Pardon me. Gotta barf a bit here …