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Tom Brady finds a broadcasting chapter he can skip

Fanatics' comic signing-table clip pairs a sportscasting handbook with a warning about keeping his shirt on in Foxborough.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 42,694 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (2,756).

He might go tarps off today to honor Gronkie and the 2016 team 🤷‍♂️He might go tarps off today to honor Gronkie and the 2016 team 🤷‍♂️

Tom Brady has a stack of posters to sign when someone adds a little homework: Rick Schultz's Secrets of Sports Broadcasting. He picks it up, flips through it and quickly finds a section that seems surplus to requirements.

"How do you get a start in sports broadcasting? Let's skip that chapter," Brady says.

The playful clip, posted by Fanatics, presents the former Patriots quarterback as studying for a return to Foxborough behind the microphone. Wearing a white Michigan T-shirt, he is surrounded by memorabilia celebrating the career that made him a familiar face there long before broadcasting entered the picture.

The Short reached about 22,000 views in nine hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for that format. This is a quick signing-table joke, not a broadcasting lesson.

Fanatics' title raises the possibility of Brady going shirtless to honor "Gronkie" and the 2016 team. Nobody actually loses a shirt in the clip. Instead, an off-camera voice offers a simpler preparation tip: "Keep your shirt on." Brady's verdict: "Good advice."

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The facts
Channel
Fanatics
Subscribers
109,000
Channel views, last 7 days
708,908
Channel views, pace per day
79,746 (on a normal day: 74,966)
Video published
November 8, 2026
Video views so far
22,497 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
42,694

The numbers

Brady's clip has already drawn several times Fanatics' usual first-day views for a Short, with its first day still underway.

the video's first day
usual first day here
2,756
this video
42,694
subscribers
109,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
146,743,589
views per day
79,746
typical day: 74,966
the video
views
22,497
likes
444
comments
2
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Fanatics
109,000
As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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