Brady to play with NFL stars in Saudi flag tourney

LAS VEGAS -- Tom Brady is coming retired of status ... benignant of.

The Las Vegas Raiders number proprietor and seven-time Super Bowl-winning backmost announced Monday that helium has teamed up with Fanatics, Fox Sports and OBB Media for the "The Fanatics Flag Football Classic."

Brady volition play successful a first-of-its-kind round-robin tourney featuring 3 teams of existent and erstwhile shot players.

The tourney volition instrumentality spot connected March 21, 2026, astatine the Kingdom Arena successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

"It felt similar the cleanable clip for maine to deed the tract again and get my competitory juices flowing," Brady said up of Monday night's matchup betwixt the Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers.

Among the participants are Saquon Barkley, CeeDee Lamb, Christian McCaffrey, Sauce Gardner, Myles Garrett, Brock Bowers, Maxx Crosby, Tyreek Hill, Odell Beckham Jr., and Brady's erstwhile teammate Rob Gronkowski.

Additional participants, consisting of nonrecreational athletes from different sports and celebrities, volition beryllium announced successful the coming months.

The teams volition beryllium coached by Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Kyle Shanahan.

Flag shot volition beryllium introduced successful the 2028 Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles. NFL clubs voted successful May to licence players to participate.

"I've ever admired the powerfulness of emblem football, the fastest increasing athletics successful the world, and however it connects fans of each ages," Brady said. "I privation to assistance proceed the planetary question and momentum that our crippled is having."