The Canberra Raiders want NFL GOAT Tom Brady to play an iconic role for the club ahead of its clash against the Warriors in Las Vegas.
The 47-year-old is expected to be a guest commentator on Fox One’s US coverage of the NRL’s second Vegas trip, and the Raiders want him to blow the horn and lead the Viking Clap before kick-off.
Speaking on SEN, Raiders chief executive Don Furner said it would be “fantastic to get a Tom Brady-like person” to blow the horn, or potentially Rob Gronkowski.
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“There are a couple of lines of communication through the NRL,” Furner said.
“We are in communication with Las Vegas Raiders about two of their players … we would like it to be an American NFL player, that’s our aim.
The Canberra Raiders want Tom Brady to blow the horn and lead the club’s Viking Clap in Vegas. Getty/Nine
“We’ve had a lot of suggestions through as to who that should be, and if we get one of the Raiders players, that would be great. That’s what we’re trying to do now.
“Fox One are doing our game and Tom Brady or Gronkowski will be a guest commentator is my understanding. If one of those two are commentators on that day… it would be great to have one of those two.
“So, I guess that’s the top of the mountain, and then a Raiders player, a Las Vegas Raiders player would be unbelievable too.”
The Raiders are the ‘home’ team against the Warriors, and will play the second game of the expanded Las Vegas showcase on March 2 (AEDT).
A Super League clash between the Wigan Warriors and Warrington Wolves will open the event, followed by the Raiders-Warriors, the women’s international between the Jillaroos and England, and then the Panthers-Sharks to end the event.
