Tom Brady and the New England Patriots got the last laugh after all following U.S. District Judge Richard Berman's decision to nullify the quarterback's four-game suspension handed down by the NFL this summer, according to the Boston Globe.

This means that the four-time Super Bowl champion and 10-time Pro Bowler signal caller will be in the center of New England's offense during their opening day game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on September 10.

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The 38-year-old three-time Super Bowl MVP was suspended four games, which is supposed to be the first four games of the coming season, by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after he was accused of participating in the Deflategate scandal, a football tampering violation that allegedly gave the Patriots an unfair advantage over the Indianapolis Colts during their 2014 AFC Championship game win.

Brady filed an appeal days after the suspension was given to him but the commissioner upheld the ruling in late July, which forced the former Michigan standout's camp and the NFL Players Association to bring it immediately that day to a federal court for higher arbitration.

More than a month later, Judge Berman sided with the two-time NFL MVP.

SB Nation indicated that the judge took issue on the fact that Goodell "appointed himself to hear Brady's appeal", which was not allowed under NFL rules, and that the league denied its chief attorney, Jeff Pash, the chance to testify during the whole process.

The NFLPA have argued that Brady's punishment was unprecedented and inconsistent with tampering violations in the past and thus the league was only basing their reprimand on the quarterback's alleged "unwillingness to cooperate in the investigation," something that Judge Berman agreed on by saying that "there was no notice of a four-game suspension in the circumstances presented here."

The judge then sought the two parties to settle their differences on their own rather than make the court muddle into the professional league's collective bargaining agreement.

Goodell reportedly does not want to agree on a reduced punishment without Brady admitting to the Wells report findings, which is something that the two-time First-team All-Pro player would certainly not do at this time.

The New York Times recently reported that the NFL filed an appeal regarding Judge Berman's decision in order to try and uphold Brady's four-game suspension once again.

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