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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.No doubt. But the NFL has a lot more to lose than Brady. If public opinion is already (if fragilely) 2--1 against them, that number would firm up, but most importantly they risk that the issue will "cross over" from sports fans to a broader audience if Brady prevails. If Brady loses it sucks for him and the patriots, but the multi-billion dollar enterprise is untouched.The PR battle isn't over yet. A Brady loss in court would change the numbers, for example.
An article in today's Financial Post (a Canadian bisiness newspaper) crushes the NFL on the science. Written by Steve McIntyre
http://business.financialpost.com/f...-science-could-have-wrongly-smeared-tom-brady
"Cheap pressure gauges – and confusion about basic science – could have wrongly smeared Tom Brady as an NFL cheat
Playing out on the sports pages this summer has been yet another example of distorted pseudo-science – the Deflategate scandal – an incident which, in my opinion, would not have been an issue without defective scientific and statistical analysis by Exponent, the NFL’s technical consultants, and defective peer review by Daniel Marlow of Princeton. The NFL’s suspension of Tom Brady is under appeal and a decision is expected on Sept. 4, but the appeal will not turn on the underlying science and statistics, but on procedural issues of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. But any fair-minded person ought to be repulsed (though perhaps not surprised) that the decision will rely in any way on pseudo science."....