Last week, the lovely NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decided to uphold Tom Brady’s four-game suspension after his Deflategate appeal. Now, I know we're all sick of hearing about this and arguing about it, but these recent events are just dripping with injustices. It’s just impossible to stay away.

On January 18, 2015, the Patriots crushed the Colts in the AFC Championship — 45-7, actually. After accusations by the Colts that the Patriots had deflated 11 out of 12 balls 0.2 less than the ideal PSI range, the NFL commissioned the Wells Report to delve into (or poorly scratch the surface of) the “facts” of the case. On May 11, Brady was suspended four games on the grounds that it was “probable” he was “generally aware” about the footballs.

Brady filed an appeal and on June 28 Goodell upheld the suspension — the entire four games. Brady has the exact same punishment as Greg Hardy has now, who may I remind you, was convicted of assaulting and threatening to murder his ex-girlfriend. But don’t get me wrong, having knowledge about underinflated footballs is the exact same thing. Gotta stay consistent, right?

This entire course of action has been riddled with blurry lines and weak data. Since the Wells Report has been released, a third-party think tank, American Enterprise Institute, concluded that the report was “unreliable” and “deeply flawed.” They discovered that the statistical method behind the report used improper procedures in measuring the PSI. Therefore, the report should lose all credibility.

The appeal process itself wasn't much better. As Brady’s agent Don Yee released in his statement last week to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter, “The appeal process was a sham, resulting in the Commissioner rubber-stamping his own decision. For example, the Wells investigative team was given over 100 days to conduct its investigation. Just days prior to the appeal hearing, we were notified that we would only have four hours to present a defense; therefore, we didn’t have enough time to examine important witnesses.” The deck was stacked against them.

The entire country seems to rest easy on the fact that Brady destroyed his phone, clearly a death sentence in itself. However, Yee goes on to explain how cooperative Brady was in the appeal process. The defense provided the NFL with an abundance of such personal electronic information, which Yee says the NFL “ignored.” Brady took to Facebook to release his own statement, saying that the NFL knew he was not submitting his phone as evidence BEFORE he replaced it.

The entire case reeks of injustice. Where was all this when the Minnesota Vikings and Carolina Panthers were caught using heaters to warm footballs during a game last November? All they received was a simple slap on the wrist and a “don't do it again.” Or Jerry Rice, the “greatest receiver of all-time,” admitting to using the illegal substance Stick’em on his gloves? Or how about when Aaron Rodgers came forward and admitted to over-inflating footballs? Same type of crime, right?

There is a blatant inconsistency in the league.

The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) has already taken action and appealed what they call an “outrageous decision” to the federal court. In their statement, the NFLPA attacked the NFL’s “legal deficiencies of due process” and pointed out that there had been no procedures in place (until last week) about testing the air pressure in footballs and no policy in place that applied to players’ discipline. The NFLPA even went as far as to claim that “the fact that the NFL would resort to basing a suspension on a smoke screen of irrelevant text messages instead of admitting that they have all the phone records they asked for is a new low for them.”

We can only hope that all the truth will come out in a Goodell-less court of law. It hard to believe that we have been debating the PSI of footballs for the past six months. The NFL had an opportunity to clean up this mess, but due to sloppy investigative work and a clear lack of justice, we are still here debating this in August.

As Yee said in his statement, “The Commissioner’s decision and discipline has no precedent in all of NFL history. His decision alters the competitive balance of the upcoming season. The decision is wrong and has no basis, and it diminished the integrity of the game.”

So, you think Tom Brady ruined the “integrity of the game”? Goodell just beat him out.