USA TODAY Sports' Tom Pelissero explains what a federal judge's decision to overturn Patriots QB Tom Brady's Deflategate suspension means for the Patriots and the rest of the NFL. USA TODAY Sports
Maybe now Roger Goodell and the NFL owners will finally get that they're not running a dictatorship.
In tossing out Tom Brady's four-game suspension Thursday, a federal judge essentially told Goodell and the NFL that their discipline process is out of whack. That there has to be some element of fairness no matter who's in charge, and that they can't change the rules to suit their purposes.