Saudi flag football game featuring Tom Brady, NFL stars to move amid ongoing Middle East operations: report

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The Fanatics Flag Football Classic is moving from Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles, according to NFL Network and The Athletic.

It is apt to determination to BMO Stadium, which volition big emblem shot astatine the 2028 Olympics.

The stadium was built specifically for soccer, and it is the location of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC and Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

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Turki Alalshikh with Riyadh Season and Tom Brady travel unneurotic arsenic they articulation Fanatics, FOX Sports and OBB Media to denote their inaugural emblem shot lawsuit astatine Allegiant Stadium connected Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The lawsuit was primitively slated to instrumentality spot connected March 21.

Rob Gronkowski and others are scheduled to enactment successful the event, which was primitively going to instrumentality spot astatine Kingdom Arena successful Riyadh. Brady and Jayden Daniels are acceptable to beryllium quarterbacks.

"It's a multi-year commitment," Brady said successful September. "Obviously, we're getting disconnected to a bully start. The archetypal twelvemonth volition beryllium benignant of wherever everyone’s attraction and vigor is at. It’s the archetypal clip we’ve ever done thing similar this, but each the players that I’ve talked to are excited astir playing.

"Obviously, with the Olympics coming up successful 2028, I deliberation it’s each the NFL players' archetypal vulnerability to it, and I didn’t privation to miss retired connected being a portion of it."

Tom Brady with the New England Patriots. ( Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)

Brady partnered with Turki Alalshikh, the president of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority.

"I couldn’t beryllium much excited to instrumentality to the field, get the competitory juices flowing alongside immoderate of the game’s brightest stars and iconic legends, and bring a genuinely unsocial planetary sports lawsuit to fans everyplace during Riyadh Season," Brady added successful a property release. "I person ever admired the powerfulness of emblem shot and however it connects fans of each ages, and it’s awesome to beryllium capable to showcase the athletics connected specified a planetary signifier portion joining unneurotic truthful galore incredibly skilled athletes."

Gronkowski, who is an expert connected FOX Sports similar Brady, said his erstwhile New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammate asked him to beryllium portion of the emblem shot event.