All in a name: Teflon Tom not first Brady to win big in court, The National Football League and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell might not want to hold their breath as they will be hoping to successfully win their appeal to Judge Roger Berman’s Deflategate ruling. That comes from former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, who knows courtrooms battles, arbitration rulings and showdowns between sport leagues and professional players unions.
The former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) said, per Sporting News:
“This was a failure of due process. In other words, it wasn’t what Goodell did, but how he did it. (The judge) took Goodell’s word for it and said, for the purpose of this opinion, the arbitration was correct. The reversal, then, was on constitutional grounds.”
Usually in sports and all over labor cases involving collective bargaining, the courts don’t impede with mediation decisions, Fay Vincent added:
“I read the opinion with some skepticism, and I was surprised and impressed with the opinion and how he reached it.”
“It’s very hard to reverse this. I think this judge was very protective against another appellate judge overruling this.”
During his time serving as the eighth Commissioner of MLB from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992. — when he resigned just as owners were set to force him out of the league — Vincent presided over a number of several arbitration cases, and none of them went to the courtroom, he stated, because all sides had made sure constitutional protections were dynamically in right place.
Back in May, when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell first suspended quarterback Brady for four-games and fined the New England Patriots with $1 million as well as loss of a 2016 first-rounder and 2017 fourth-rounder selections.
Those were for the alleged deflation of footballs, Vincent said via New York Daily News that the league had made “the right call” and that “when your job is to lead a sports league, the integrity of the game itself is not of secondary importance. It’s the whole ballgame.”
“The idea that Goodell got caught up and shot down on procedural issues is very surprising, and very easy to avoid. The court was very taken up with the screwed-up process they saw … I think the NFL thought they were being careful with due process, but they made a bunch of mistakes.”
The Tom Brady verdict, Vincent said, is unlikely to open the door to other pro player punishments in other sports getting challenged in court.
The former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) said, per Sporting News:
“This was a failure of due process. In other words, it wasn’t what Goodell did, but how he did it. (The judge) took Goodell’s word for it and said, for the purpose of this opinion, the arbitration was correct. The reversal, then, was on constitutional grounds.”
Usually in sports and all over labor cases involving collective bargaining, the courts don’t impede with mediation decisions, Fay Vincent added:
“I read the opinion with some skepticism, and I was surprised and impressed with the opinion and how he reached it.”
“It’s very hard to reverse this. I think this judge was very protective against another appellate judge overruling this.”
During his time serving as the eighth Commissioner of MLB from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992. — when he resigned just as owners were set to force him out of the league — Vincent presided over a number of several arbitration cases, and none of them went to the courtroom, he stated, because all sides had made sure constitutional protections were dynamically in right place.
Back in May, when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell first suspended quarterback Brady for four-games and fined the New England Patriots with $1 million as well as loss of a 2016 first-rounder and 2017 fourth-rounder selections.
Those were for the alleged deflation of footballs, Vincent said via New York Daily News that the league had made “the right call” and that “when your job is to lead a sports league, the integrity of the game itself is not of secondary importance. It’s the whole ballgame.”
“The idea that Goodell got caught up and shot down on procedural issues is very surprising, and very easy to avoid. The court was very taken up with the screwed-up process they saw … I think the NFL thought they were being careful with due process, but they made a bunch of mistakes.”
The Tom Brady verdict, Vincent said, is unlikely to open the door to other pro player punishments in other sports getting challenged in court.
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