Tom Brady is down – but not out – in the latest chapter of Deflategate. Photograph by Keith Allison.

It’s ba-ack.

Just when you thought it was safe to move on to baseball, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the NFL and against Tom Brady in Deflategate, upholding the league’s four-game suspension of the New England Patriots quarterback for his probable role in deflating footballs in the Pats’ AFC Championship win over the Indianapolis Colts. That blowout victory paved the way for the Pats’ Super Bowl championship last year.

Though the Court of Appeals’ decision reversed a lower court’s ruling that the league overreached in suspending Brady – in violation of the collective bargaining agreement – for me this has always been about what Brady knew and when he knew it.

Unfortunately for all of us, this is unlikely to be the end of Deflategate. Brady could take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and Lord knows he has the ego to do it.

Put it this way: If I were backup QB Jimmy Garroppolo, I wouldn’t suit up just yet.