Like cockroaches after a nuclear apocalypse, Deflategate is a story that just will not go away. Today, some Patriots fans, like some Japanese soldiers from World War II who didn’t want to surrender even knowing the war was over, filed suit against the NFL about its handling of Deflategate invoking the RICO act, the act that is used to take down the Mafia (and FIFA, and hell, the NFL in another lawsuit).
The plaintiffs are referred to as “New England Patriots Fans” in the suit filed in a Boston court Tuesday, and names the NFL, Roger Goodell, and, oddly enough, Robert Kraft as a defendant. They’re looking to force the NFL to overturn the Patriots’ forfeiture of a first round pick in this year’s NFL Draft.
A list of things the suit accuses the NFL of:
– Breach of contract (assuming NFL teams are legally mandated to draft picks in an implied deal)
– Negligence
– Fraud
– Infliction of emotional distress (because some people just can’t grasp physics)
– Violation of the RICO act (because somehow, the league and Patriots conspired to defraud fans out of their hard earned legal right to watch their team legally bind a college student to a certain business)
If you’d like to read the lawsuit in full, you can do so below. Or, if you’d rather, you can spend 10 minutes banging your head against a wall, as that might give you more insight into DeflateGate than that lawsuit will.
[Deadspin]
