Goodell: no avenue right now to settle ‘Deflategate’
Published 9:02 am Tuesday, June 7, 2016
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell took the air out of reaching a settlement with Tom Brady following the Patriots star quarterback’s latest appeal of the league’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension.
“At this stage, no,” Goodell said Monday, noting there have been several previous bids to reach a settlement. “The courts will make their decisions, and we’ll move forward on that basis.”
Goodell spoke while attending Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly’s 30th annual charitable golf tournament being held outside of Buffalo.
The comments were Goodell’s first in two weeks since Brady’s lawyers asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a new hearing before an expanded panel of judges.