On Monday, Tom Brady announced that he’ll unretire to play in a flag football tournament in Saudi Arabia.

The press release named several active NFL players as scheduled participants: Saquon Barkley, CeeDee Lamb, Christian McCaffrey, Sauce Gardner, Myles Garrett, Brock Bowers, Maxx Crosby, and Tyreek Hill.

The league said on Tuesday that it’s not an NFL initiative . On Friday, the NFL sent a memo to all teams regarding the event.

“The Event is not an NFL-sanctioned event and the league has no role in the organization or production of the game,” the league explains in the memo, a copy of which PFT has obtained. “This Event is not covered by the resolution to permit NFL Players to participate in Olympic Flag Football. Therefore, if an NFL Player sustains an injury while participat

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