Sean Payton does not go on vacation much, he proclaimed. So when Tom Brady texted the Broncos head coach recently to ask if he’d coach in a three-team flag football tournament in Saudi Arabia in 2026, Payton looked at his calendar. It was a vacation week in March.

Payton accepted, on one seeming condition: Brady had to be on his squad.

“It’s significant when it comes to growing our game, with the Olympics not far around the corner,” Payton said of Brady’s recently announced event , which will include other NFL stars and head coaches Pete Carroll and Kyle Shanahan.

They appear set to team up, then, in Saudi Arabia. In this current NFL landscape, though, they are figures on opposite sides of divisional lines, with Payton leading the Broncos and with Brady a minority owner of the Las Veg

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