That's OK with me. Cheating is cheating and should not be tolerated by the league for any team. If they are going to let teams slide on things then there will always be claims of unfairness when someone is actually punished. If no one in league management thinks a certain action is illegal or unfair, then why not repeal or amend the rule to reflect actions that create unfair play.
As far as the Colts balls are concerned, if the league found evidence that someone on the Colts purposely deflated them in a preplanned manner, then I agree. Considering one of the trainers on the Patriots was called "The Deflator" made it a little bit more in your face giving the rules a big middle finger. If there is evidence the Colts had something similar, I have no problem punishing them as well.
Brady, of course, made it worse for himself by not cooperating with the investigation. Everyone knows that taking the fifth amendment is not an admission of guilt, but pretty much everyone assumes that it is. Him refusing to cooperate was seen by the league and many others in the same way. He certainly has the right to have some righteous indignation believing that the league singled him out unfairly if he wants, but people also have the right to make judgement about him and his complicity in the situation by those actions.
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