Yes! Tom Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ suspension has a tech angle!

What? You didn’t think I was going to try to find some way to get in on this story?

For an all-too-brief recap: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently decided to uphold the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for destroying his cellphone, and apparently the text messages sent with it, while the league investigated claims that he had footballs deliberately deflated to give his team an advantage in last season’s AFC Championship, which the Patriots won handily en route to their fourth Super Bowl championship, which occurred on the best night of my life.

Brady isn’t too happy with all this, so he took to his Facebook page to issue a statement in response to this seemingly never-ending saga, denying that he destroyed his cellphone in an attempt to withhold evidence, revealing that he offered instead to provide the phone numbers of individuals with whom he communicated on the previously destroyed device, and pointing out that the league has no right to demand an invasion of privacy to a member of the players’ union.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here