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Brady won't ask for injunction, wants case resolved by start of season

One theme of deflate-gate has been that everything has dragged on too long. The investigation took months, Roger Goodell took five weeks to rule on Tom Brady's appeal, and now we're almost to August and the NFL and NFLPA are going to court.

Both sides finally agree on something: This needs to get resolved by the time the regular season starts.

According to the Boston Herald, Brady's NFLPA-appointed lawyer Jeffrey Kessler wrote a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman asking him to resolve the case by Sept. 4. The Patriots start the season on Sept. 10. Brady is fighting a four-game suspension in the deflate-gate scandal that was upheld by Goodell on Tuesday. 

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The Herald's story said that Brady won't look for an injunction, which might have allowed him to play while the legal battle plays out if it was granted. Instead, he, the union and the league just want it done.

“[T]he parties met and conferred and have agreed that a final resolution of this matter prior to the commencement of the 2015 NFL regular season would be in everyone’s best interest,” Kessler wrote, according to the Herald.

If the sides can get a quick resolution, it avoids the mess and injunction might have caused. There was concern that if the injunction was granted and the case was resolved late in the calendar year, Brady might have missed late-season or postseason games. It doesn't sound like that will be an issue. 

After a lot of posturing and waiting, the deflate-gate controversy that started shortly after the AFC championship game in January might get settled in the next month or so. Thank goodness for that. 

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Frank Schwab is the editor of Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at shutdown.corner@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!