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(Reuters) - Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game National Football League suspension for participating in a scheme to deflate footballs during last season's playoffs begins Tuesday at NFL headquarters in New York.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will be the arbiter of the appeal by the New England Patriots quarterback, who was found by a league-hired investigator to have been aware of the plan.
The Patriots were fined $1 million and forced to surrender two draft choices for deflating footballs in a 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in January's AFC championship that put New England in the Super Bowl.