Brady wins inaugural Fanatics Games, $1M prize

Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady emerged Sunday arsenic the victor of the inaugural Fanatics Games, which pitted athletes and celebrities against fans successful 8 competitions this play astatine Fanatics Fest successful New York City.

Brady finished atop the 100-person leaderboard with 399.1 points, taking location the $1 cardinal prize. Brady, the erstwhile New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost who is presently a part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and an NFL broadcaster for Fox Sports, said helium volition springiness $5,000 to each of the 50 fans who competed successful the lawsuit and donate the remainder to charity.

UFC combatant Justin Gaethje finished 2nd with 345.5 points, to triumph a Ferrari 812 GTS.

A instrumentality -- 39-year-old Pennsylvania teacher Matt Dennish -- finished 3rd with 326 points to triumph a 2003-04 Topps Chrome Gold Refractor LeBron James rookie card, numbered to 50 and graded a 9.5 by Beckett Grading Services. Dennish aboriginal sold the paper to Brady for $250,000 and a signed paper and jersey from the aboriginal Pro Football Hall of Famer, according to clict.com.

The competitors took portion successful 8 sports-themed skills competitions: backmost skills, hoops shooting (around the world), shot goal-scoring, shot pitching accuracy, a washer-dryer hockey shooting challenge, a WWE Superstar entrance, a UFC striking situation and a closest-to-the-pin play challenge.

Six fans were among the apical 10 finishers. LA Clippers prima James Harden (fourth) and retired New York Giants backmost Eli Manning (fifth) were the lone different athletes to decorativeness successful the apical 10.