By now, you’ve heard that the suspension handed down to Tom Brady by the NFL for improper “deflating” footballs (4 games this season) has been upheld.
Tom, Tom, Tom. You could have dealt with this 6 months ago.
For the uninitiated, Brady’s a quarterback in professional football. The rules state that footballs must be inflated to a certain range of pressure, and each team gets to submit footballs they want to use in a game. The balls are checked by the officials, who generally – and I’m not making this up – squeeze them to make sure they feel “right”.
The charge is that the balls got deflated below legal limits after that official check in the AFC Championship game last January.
Read the whole post over at Kris Dunn’s The HR Capitalist (an FOT contributor blog).
Kris Dunn is a Partner and CHRO at Kinetix, a national RPO firm for growth companies headquartered in Atlanta. He’s also the founder Fistful of Talent (founded in 2008) and The HR Capitalist (2007) – and has written over 70 feature columns at Workforce Management magazine. Prior to his investment at Kinetix, Kris served in HR leadership roles at DAXKO, Charter and Cingular. In his spare time, KD hits the road as a speaker and gives the world what it needs – pop culture references linked to Human Capital street smarts.