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Los Angeles (AFP) - NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is a potential witness in New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's appeal of a four-game ban, and shouldn't preside over the appeal, the NFL Players Association said Friday.
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The union filed an appeal on Brady's behalf on Thursday, when their demand for an independent arbitrator was quickly answered by the league with confirmation that Goodell himself would hear the case.
If Goodell doesn't reconsider, "the NFLPA and Mr Brady will seek recusal and pursue all available relief to obtain an arbitrator who is not evidently partial," the union wrote in a letter to the league that it made public on Friday.