The NFL stuck to its decision of penalizing New England Patriot’s superstar quarterback Tom Brady with a four-game suspension for his alleged involvement in the notorious football manipulating scandal called “Deflategate”, as reported by CNN.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the ruling on Tuesday and claimed that Brady was trying to “hide evidence of his own participation in the underlying scheme to alter the footballs” by destroying his personal mobile phone that allegedly contained proof of his involvement in the misdemeanor.

The four-time Super Bowl champion’s agent and attorney, Don Yee, defended his client by saying that Brady “did nothing wrong” in tossing away an old phone as he merely wanted to protect all his personal information