Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, accepts the NFL penalty and will not appeal the league's ruling over the Deflategate incident, reports NFL.com.

The said punishment concerns an incident wherein the team's locker room attendant Jim McNally, and equipment assistant John Jastremski deflated footballs below 12.5 pounds per square inch to fit Tom Brady's liking, in time for the AFC Championship game, according to Ted Wells' 139-page NFL-commissioned report.

The reigning Super Bowl champions, the Patriots, was charged $1M in fines. The Patriots' rights for the 2016 first-round pick and its 2017 fourth-round drafting choice was also cancelled.

"We reached these decisions after extensive discussion with Troy Vincent and many others," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "We relied on the critical importance of protecting the integrity of the game and the thoroughness and independence of the Wells report."

In the case of Tom Brady, he was suspended for the first four games of the next season without pay, as noted by the NFL site. However, Brady officially filed his appeal within three days of the suspension announcement.

Kraft reacted strongly to the Patriots QB's punishment. "Despite our conviction that there was no tampering with footballs, it was our intention to accept any discipline levied by the league. Today's punishment, however, far exceeded any reasonable expectation. It was based completely on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence," he said in an earlier article by NFL.com.

Although upset, the team owner will not make an appeal, as he announced Tuesday at the Spring League Meeting.

"Although I might disagree with what is decided, I do have respect for the commissioner and believe that he's doing what he perceives to be in the best interest of the full 32. So in that spirit I don't want to continue the rhetoric that's gone on for the past four months. I'm going to accept, reluctantly, what he has given to us and not continue this dialogue and rhetoric and we won't appeal," Kraft told the reporters present in the event.

"At no time should the agenda of one team outweigh the collective good of the full 32," Kraft added.