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NFL won’t discipline Brady for gunfire at wedding

Even if he loses a freshly-filed civil lawsuit, New England quarterback Tom Brady will not face NFL suspension for an alleged shooting incident at his April wedding in Costa Rica.

Two photographers are seeking $1 million in damages from Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen. Yuri Cortez and Rolando Aviles claim that Bundchen’s security team fired guns at their car when the paparazzi refused to surrender their camera equipment. Cortez and Aviles filed suit Tuesday in a New York City court.

“Bodyguards are not supposed to be pulling out guns and firing at photographers,” Aviles and Cortez’s attorney John Paul Gleason told People Magazine. “It just shows terrible lack of training and supervision.”

Because weapons were allegedly involved, Brady would be subject to suspension under the NFL’s personal conduct policy if criminal charges were filed against him or the security team. Costa Rican police investigated the incident but no charges were filed.

“The personal conduct policy is aimed at the personal criminal conduct of NFL personnel, not civil matters involving the conduct of someone’s security people,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a Thursday morning e-mail.

Brady declined comment about the lawsuit Wednesday. Brady described the shooting allegations as “absolute total b.s.” during a May interview with Sports Illustrated.

“We found two guys on our property and told them to get out,” Brady told the magazine. “Our security guys didn’t even have guns. There were no shots fired.”

Bundchen, one of the world’s top supermodels, told People in May that she wasn’t even aware of the photographers’ claims until the day after her wedding. Bundchen, 29, is expecting her first child in December with Brady, a three-time Super Bowl winner who is considered the NFL’s biggest star.