The NFL was forced to delete a tweet after making a gaffe involving Tom Brady on Sunday afternoon.
The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback is approaching his debut as a broadcaster for FOX, but he was never scheduled to call the fixture between the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams as the league’s X/Twitter account had fans believe prior to the game.
Said account posted a video of the seven-time Super Bowl winner walking along the SoFi Stadium sideline, seemingly getting ready for his first time in the broadcast booth.
But fans doubted they would hear Brady’s voice, and rightly so, because he was not announced ahead of the game. You have to imagine that Brady’s debut would be huge news.
BREAKING: Tom Brady has arrived in SoFi stadium as he is making his BROADCASTING DEBUT TODAY, calling #Rams, #Cowboys.
THIS SHOULD BE A LOT OF FUN to hear TB12 in the booth calling an NFL game.
🔥🔥🔥
pic.twitter.com/DE9wemrPgH— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) August 11, 2024
Additionally, NFL Network was the national broadcaster for that particular game, and their delivery was a simulcast of the local Rams broadcast, which was handled by Andrew Siciliano, Mina Kimes, and Andrew Whitworth.
The tweet was quickly deleted, but it had already been shared on several accounts by then. While some accounts deleted the video, it remained on multiple pages, such as Mundo NFL, at least for a while.
Fans Were Not Happy With The NFL After The League Had Them Believe Tom Brady Was Calling the Cowboys-Rams Game
As you must have guessed, fans were not pleased. You can see a few of their reactions below:
Except it’s not going to be fun cause its not going to be live on air. Just a test run for the fox crew. #bebetter
— space cowboy (@spacecowbo16396) August 11, 2024
UPDATE: The #NFL messed up announcing that Brady would be calling his first-ever NFL game…
He is not announcing the game, he’s just practicing with the entire FOX crew.
Instead, we all have to listen to this ***amazing*** NFL Network broadcast.
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) August 11, 2024
Tom Brady will be making his NFL Broadcasting debut tonight during the Rams vs Cowboys preseason game
https://t.co/gGBXJHl4d8— SleeperNFL (@SleeperNFL) August 11, 2024
While it’s true that Tom Brady was at the game to work, it was because FOX opted to give him a practice run that was not aired live.
Tom Brady is in the building for his test run on the FOX broadcast today before his TV debut in week one for Cowboys-Browns pic.twitter.com/np9sKHikZa
— Nick Harris (@NickHarrisDC) August 11, 2024
We’ll get to hear him soon enough.
