Barack Obama says Tom Brady is an example of why we need unions

President Barack Obama addressed a major union rally in Boston on Labor Day, and what better way to warm up the crowd than to talk about Tom Brady and the importance of unions?

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The NFL Players Association was instrumental in fighting Brady’s four-game suspension in federal court. A judge overturned the suspension (and it means nothing Judge Richard Berman and Patriots Robert Kraft ended up at the same party this past weekend with many other people after the judgment, so just stop it). The union proudly won a high-profile case for one of its biggest members.

And according to NECN’s Alison King, Obama noted that connection.

Obama: Even Tom Brady is glad he belongs to a union. They had his back. And if Brady needs a union – we definitely need unions.

— Alison King (@alisonkingNECN) September 7, 2015

I’m guessing the crowd reacted favorably to that. And if nothing else, we have now learned that anything and everything, from a president’s speech on down, can be tied back to deflate-gate.