The NFL will lose the appeal. Especially when the court and judge they lobbied for just blew them out of the water.
I was getting a "This whole thing is silly" vibe from this judge (Berman) right from the beginning and I think it's instructive that this is the court the league preferred (over old friend judge Doty out here in Minneapolis). Lost in Goodell's over-reach in authority is the disturbing lack of credible evidence that anything at all was "wrong" to begin with.
I hear some owners are grumbling about dropping the appeal, but Goodell's got a $150 million buyout, so I guess he's not going anywhere.
This is what comes of empire building, George.