The NFL announced yesterday that they’re upholding Tom Brady’s four-game suspension over the “Deflategate” scandal.

That means his season will start with a night game on Sunday, October 18th, against the Colts in Indianapolis. Ironically, the last time these two teams played was in the AFC Championship . . . the game that spawned Deflategate.

In announcing the decision, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that Brady, quote, “engaged in conduct detrimental to the integrity of, and public confidence in, the game of professional football.”

Here’s something we hadn’t heard before: Goodell said Brady destroyed his cell phone, even though he KNEW investigators wanted to look at it.

He did it on March 6th, the day he was supposed to meet with investigators, and didn’t tell them it had been destroyed until June 18th, almost four months after they’d first told him they wanted it.

Brady’s excuse is that he got a new phone, and he always destroys the previous phone and its SIM card when he does.