A judge who lifted New England quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension last week got plenty of advice from the public before he ruled, including from a Nevada teacher who said her sixth graders thought Brady would be “plain stupid” if he couldn’t tell balls were deflated after touching a football “a million times.”

Southern District Judge Richard Berman put more than a dozen letters into the case record Wednesday, thanking each writer and apologizing for a delay in responding to football fans including a doctor, a lawyer and a teacher.