Tom Brady’s broadcast restrictions lifted for Super Bowl 2025

Tom Brady’s broadcast restrictions lifted for Super Bowl 2025

A broadcast restriction Tom Brady has faced as a minority owner of the Raiders will be lifted as he prepares to call Super Bowl 2025 with Fox.

The future Hall of Fame quarterback, 47, has been granted access to the Chiefs’ production meetings ahead of Sunday’s championship contest against the Eagles in New Orleans, team owner Clark Hunt said Tuesday, a brief reversal from the restrictions Brady has had to adhere to this season.

“When (Brady) was approved as an owner of the Raiders, there were a lot of discussions internally (among owners) and that ended up being the recommendation of the league office, that it didn’t make sense to have him in the production meetings,” Hunt said, according to The Athletic. “That’s where that rule came from. Since he’s doing the game this week, we have no issue with him being in our production meetings. He’ll have the access that any broadcaster would have.”

Tom Brady will be calling his first Super Bowl with Fox on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. Getty Images
The seven-time Super Bowl champion will be permitted access to the Chiefs’ production meetings, team owner Clark Hunt confirmed. Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images

Since his minority ownership with the Raiders was approved in October, Brady has had to comply with certain restrictions in that he cannot criticize officials, attend other teams’ practices and visit their facilities.

Participation in production meetings is also usually off the table for Brady, who has been cleared to meet with the Eagles but cannot visit their practices, per The Athletic.

Brady’s Fox colleagues Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi and play-by-play caller Kevin Burkhardt can attend practice sessions, however.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion is in his first year as Fox’s lead NFL analyst after calling it a career in February 2023 after 23 seasons in the league.

Tom Brady, a minority owner with the Raiders, is in his first season as an NFL broadcaster. Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Coincidentally enough, Brady defeated the Chiefs in 2021 en route to his first and only Super Bowl victory with the Buccaneers. He won six championships with the Patriots before leaving New England in 2020.

Hunt, whose Chiefs are one win away from making Super Bowl history as the first team to three-peat, is said to have been “one of the team owners instrumental in wanting the restrictions put in place,” given the Raiders are Kansas City’s division rival and did not want Las Vegas “to gain any advantages,” The Athletic reported.

The Chiefs, the Raiders’ division rival in the AFC West, are chasing a Super Bowl three-peat. Getty Images

The Raiders are looking to turn the page on a woeful 4-13 season that saw head coach Antonio Pierce and GM Tom Telesco dismissed after just a year in their respective posts.

The team has since hired veteran coach Pete Carroll and former Buccaneers exec Jason Spytek to ᴀssume those positions.

Brady and Burkhardt will be in the booth at Caesars Superdome when Super Bowl 2025 kicks off at 6:30 p.m.

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