Artist Apologizes For Making Tom Brady ‘Look Like Lurch’
“I’m getting bad criticism that I made him look like Lurch”, Rosenberg told The New York Times on Wednesday. “Now, this Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it. And everybody’s focusing on that one little fraction of the whole picture, of Tom Brady“, Rosenberg said.
It all started Wednesday, when Jane Rosenberg’s sketch of the New England Patriots star and other trial participants started circulating online.
But Brady’s side didn’t get off easy either. He didn’t join the laughter of lawyers at several points, and slumped in his chair and kept his head lowered throughout the hearing. The players’ union, fighting the suspension, maintains there is no proof balls were deflated. The judge also emphasized that his questioning wasn’t a sign of how he would rule.
Needless to say, the internet had a field day with Rosenberg’s depiction of Brady. Brady is alleged to have known that the balls were deflated for the game.
Vocal crowds greeted Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as they arrived at a Manhattan courthouse for a hearing on the under-inflated football dispute.
The two sides will file additional arguments to Judge Berman this week and reconvene in court next week if no settlement deal is reached ahead of that time.
However, as the judge pointed out, Brady’s performance in the game was better before the balls were deflated. “Brady’s good and he deserves to be treated as a good player”.
“Is there a text in which Mr. Brady instructs someone to put a needle in a football?” “Those are very important initiatives”, Goodell said Tuesday after meeting with owners. Goodell said there were no directly comparable cases to Brady’s in the past. Brady is not expected to play.
Sitting Brady may be a tactical move from New England’s perspective, designed to prepare second-year signal-caller Jimmy Garoppolo.
The judge met privately with Goodell and his lawyers and then with Brady and his legal team, reported CNN’s Rachel Nichols.
Goodell was greeted by a smattering of boos as he walked inside.
Both sides are scheduled to return to court next week.
First, Judge Berman could order NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash to testify at the appeal hearing, with the NFLPA entitled to obtain all communications between Pash and “independent” investigator Ted Wells firm, despite Goodell’s prior finding that the attorney-client privilege applies and that Pash should not have to testify.