People with knowledge of decision to AP: Goodell will hear Tom Brady’s appeal

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks to reporters during the NFL\'s spring meetings in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – People with knowledge of the decision say NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will hear Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension for his role in the deflated footballs scandal. The NFL told the players’ union Friday that Goodell will not recuse himself.

The people said spoke on condition of anonymity because Goodell’s decision has not been made public. The commissioner considers it his responsibility to hear the appeal.

The union asked Goodell to withdraw from that role because it said he was not impartial and would be called as a witness.

Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 season after a league-sanctioned report by lawyer Ted Wells found the New England quarterback “at least generally aware” of a scheme to deflate footballs used in the AFC title game.

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