The Deflategate judge is only three degrees of separation from Roger Goodell
Us-against-the-world Tom Brady defenders now have another arrow in their conspiracy-theory quivers.
The judge presiding over the appeal of Brady’s four-game Deflategate suspension: He’s only three degrees of separation from Roger Goodell.
The same Roger Goodell who is NFL commissioner; the same Roger Goodell who suspended Brady four games; and the same Roger Goodell who later upheld that suspension.
Judge Richard M. Berman will hear the NFL Players Association’s case on behalf of Brady in U.S. District Court in New York.
Much earlier in his career (like 40 some odd years ago), Berman was an executive assistant to U.S. Sen. Jacob Javits, a Republican from New York.
A few years before that, who served alongside Javits as New York’s other Republican senator? You guessed it (or actually, you probably didn’t), Goodell’s father, Charles Goodell.
Cue the X-Files theme song.
Timeline of Deflategate controversy
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