We’re still waiting to see when Tom Brady has his day in football court, but Greg Hardy’s is now on the docket.
According to Ed Werder of ESPN, the Cowboys defensive end’s appeal of his 10-game suspension will be held Thursday morning in Washington D.C.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had previously passed off the Hardy appeal to Harold Henderson.
Henderson was the one who upheld Goodell’s Adrian Peterson ruling, which was later reversed in court before Peterson was reinstated by the league.
When issuing Hardy’s suspension, Goodell never used the phrase “domestic violence,” going with the far more vague “conduct detrimental to the league.”
That ostensibly gives him a broader scope to punish, and we’ll see if Hardy is able to get his number knocked down.
If he can, it would spoil one of the great coincidences of the year, as his original sentence would have him back in time to play his former team, the Panthers, on Thanksgiving.
