Tom Brady takes home title at inaugural Fanatics Games
NEW YORK — NFL legend Tom Brady beat out dozens of fans, celebrities and professional athletes to win the inaugural Fanatics Games at Fanatics Fest 2025 on Sunday.
Brady, who last competed in the NFL in January 2023, finished atop the Games leaderboard with 399.1 total points to win the $1 million grand prize. Brady said he would give $5,000 to all of the 50 fans who compete and donate the rest to charity.
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UFC lightweight Justin Gaethje (345.4) and fan Matt Dennish (326) finished in second and third places to win a 2025 Ferrari 296 GTB and a 2003-04 LeBron James Topps Chrome Gold Refractor, respectively. Dennish later traded the card to Brady for $250,000 cash, plus a signed Brady card and jersey.
The Fanatics Games featured eight skill-based challenges with a total of 100 points available for each event. The two lowest-scoring events for each participant were automatically dropped to make 600 points the maximum score possible.
Six of the top-10 scorers were fans. James Harden and Eli Manning joined Brady and Gaethje as professional athletes in the top 10.
"There is a competitive spirit that I have … I had to at least show up and not embarrass myself,' Brady said during Fanatics Fest's closing ceremony.
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Brady joined hundreds of athletes and celebrities for the second annual Fanatics Fest NYC this weekend at the Javits Center.
Billed by Fanatics as a comic con for sports fans, the three-day event featured games hosted by the professional leagues, autograph and photograph sessions, talk-show style panels and a large trading card and collectibles show.
Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible content.
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