{"id":212097,"date":"2026-03-09T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212097\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:01:07","slug":"flag-football-event-featuring-tom-brady-moved-to-bmo-stadium-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212097\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag football event featuring Tom Brady moved to BMO Stadium in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tom Brady<\/a>\u2018s return to the football field will take place on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

Right here in Los Angeles, to be specific.<\/p>\n

The Fanatics Flag Football Classic, featuring Brady and a slew of other NFL stars and athletes, will take place March 21 at BMO Stadium, the venue that is also slated to host flag football during the 2028 Summer Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event was originally scheduled to take place<\/a> on the same date, but at a location more than 8,000 miles away at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. <\/p>\n

No official reason for the relocation has been given, although the move was made amid increased tensions in the Middle East<\/a> after the United States and Israel began military strikes against Iran<\/a> this month. Last week, Iran used two drones to strike the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital city. <\/p>\n

The event will feature three 12-player teams. Brady, the retired seven-time Super Bowl champion and minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts<\/a> will co-captain the Founders FFC team, which will be coached by Denver Broncos\u2019 Sean Payton<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A second team, Wildcats FFC, will be co-captained by Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow<\/a> and Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels<\/a>, with San Francisco 49ers\u2019 Kyle Shanahan<\/a> coaching. During a March 18 draft, the two teams will be built from a pool of athletes that include Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley<\/a>, Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett<\/a>, former Rams receiver Odell Beckham Jr.<\/a>, four-time Super Bowl-winning tight end Rob Gronkowski<\/a> and WWE star Logan Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third team in the event is the U.S. national flag football team, the reigning IFAF flag football world champion coached by Jorge Cascudo and captained by Aamir Brown and Darrell \u201cHoush\u201d Doucette<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady\u2018s return to the football field will take place on U.S. soil. Right here in Los Angeles,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6948,97514,1043,97515,19378,48,52,51,5562,47,50,49,63,47012,3906,97516,42954,42951,427,26760,37915],"class_list":["post-212097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-athlete","tag-bmo-stadium","tag-event","tag-flag-football-event","tag-iran","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-week","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-military-strike","tag-month","tag-place-march","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-team","tag-tom-brady","tag-u-s-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}