{"id":160371,"date":"2025-09-16T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160371\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:41:09","slug":"tom-brady-is-coming-out-of-retirement-for-a-third-time-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160371\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Is Coming Out of Retirement for a Third Time \u2014 Here’s How!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Brady<\/a> is coming out of retirement for a third time to play in an inaugural flag football tournament.\n<\/p>\n

On Monday, Sept. 15, it was announced that Brady, Fanatics, Fox Sports, and OBB Media have teamed up to put on the Fanatics Flag Football Classic \u2014 a global flag football event scheduled to take place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of this year\u2019s Riyadh Season.<\/p>\n

According to a press release<\/a>, the event, scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2026, will feature three teams of eight players competing in a round-robin tournament, with the top two teams advancing to a championship match.\n<\/p>\n

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Each game will follow Olympic-style flag football rules, played on a 50-yard field with two 10-yard end zones, a 5-on-5 format, and two 20-minute halves.\n<\/p>\n

Fanatics Flag Football Classic logo.<\/p>\n

Fox Sports<\/p>\n

Each team will be made up of current and past football stars, as well as world-class athletes, marking Brady’s first official return to the field since his second retirement in 2023<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

In addition to Brady, other confirmed players include Rob Gronkowski<\/a>, Odell Beckham Jr.<\/a>, Tyreek Hill<\/a>, Saquon Barkley<\/a>, Christian McCaffrey<\/a>, CeeDee Lamb<\/a>, Sauce Gardner<\/a>, Myles Garrett<\/a>, Brock Bowers<\/a>, and Maxx Crosby<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The tournament will be broadcast live on FOX Sports and streamed on Tubi, with Kevin Hart<\/a> hosting, and Pete Carroll<\/a>, Sean Payton<\/a>, and Kyle Shanahan<\/a> serving as coaches.\n<\/p>\n

Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots looks on from the sidelines against the New York Giants on December 29, 2007.<\/p>\n

Jim McIsaac\/Getty<\/p>\n

Further details, including additional participants and special programming, will be announced in the coming months.\n<\/p>\n

In a press statement, Brady said he “couldn\u2019t be more excited to return to the field, get the competitive juices flowing alongside some of the game\u2019s brightest stars and iconic legends, and bring a truly unique global sports event to fans everywhere during Riyadh Season.”\n<\/p>\n

The NFL legend added that he has always “admired the power of flag football and how it connects fans of all ages.”\n<\/p>\n

Tom Brady broadcasting on Fox.<\/p>\n

NFL on FOX<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s awesome to be able to showcase the sport on such a global stage while joining together so many incredibly skilled athletes,” he added. “I\u2019m looking forward to partnering with Turki Alalshikh, Fanatics, OBB Media, my team at Shadow Lion and my friends at FOX Sports to showcase some fierce competition. And I will be bringing home the trophy.”\n<\/p>\n

Brady began his NFL career when the New England Patriots selected him in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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He led the Patriots to a championship against the then-St. Louis Rams<\/a> in the 2002 Super Bowl. Brady went on to win five more championships with the franchise before winning his seventh and final Super Bowl ring with the Buccaneers<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady is coming out of retirement for a third time to play in an inaugural flag football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-160371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}