The federal judge who decided the Deflategate court battle in Tom Brady’s favor last month “vastly exceeded” his authority and his decision should be overturned, the NFL said in new court papers filed Monday.

The league’s brief argues that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had the power to suspend Brady after the Patriots quarterback took part in a scheme to deflate game balls before a game.

The scheme was aimed at gaining an unfair competitive advantage on the field, and it was devised to avoid detection by game officials,” league lawyers wrote in the 59-page brief.

“The Commissioner’s ‘conduct detrimental’ authority exists for incidents just like this.”

Manhattan federal court judge Richard Berman overturned Goodell’s four-game suspension of Brady in September, bashing the commissioner in his decision for “dispensing his own brand of industrial justice.”

The NFL appealed his decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where Monday’s brief was filed.

Arguments in the appeal could happen as early as the week of February 1 – which is ironically the same week of the Super Bowl.