The field was pocket-sized. The action featured no tackling. And some of the most productive players on the turf were figures even the most rabid sports fan couldn’t name without using Google.
But for hours on Saturday, the Fanatics Flag Football Classic at BMO Stadium was the place to be for celebrities in Los Angeles.
The event pitted rosters full of current and former NFL stars against Team USA’s national flag football team, and while the pros spent most of the afternoon getting demolished, the spectacle brought out a crowd that looked like it belonged at the Grammys or the Oscars.
Justin Bieber was there, as was his wife, Hailey.
Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Scott had great seats.
Druski and Kevin Hart helped emcee the whole thing.
Social media influencers, such as Marlon Lundgren Garcia, Jonathan “Tota” Augusto and Jack Goldberg, roamed parts of the venue with massive entourages.
Billionaires Michael Rubin and Todd Graves had chairs in a sideline area that could’ve been confused for the VIP section of a nightclub.
Brooks Nader, Jamie Foxx and Robert Griffin III all were spotted as well.
Even Joe Burrow’s rumored girlfriend, Olivia Ponton — a model who’s kept ultra private about her speculated romance with the Bengals quarterback — showed up to root on the 29-year-old’s first foray into the flag game.
And while Team USA, made up of athletes who most NFL fans had never heard of, rolled through squads that were captained by Tom Brady, Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels and Burrow, the celebs still had plenty to cheer about.
Odell Beckham Jr. logged a one-handed touchdown that brought back memories of the 2014 “Sunday Night Football” catch that catapulted him to stardom.
Logan Paul, one of only a handful of non-football players in the tournament, embraced a villain role. First, he knocked off Team USA captain Darrell “Housh” Doucette’s sunglasses while talking trash. Later, he got into a scuffle with Brady. It all resulted in the crowd raining boos down on him in hilarious fashion during the third game of the round-robin showcase.
Meanwhile, iShowSpeed — one of the most-followed streamers on the planet who played defense for Burrow’s Wildcats FFC team — drew more attention from young fans than Hurts, Daniels and Stefon Diggs combined.
The whole day ultimately left Doucette, the tournament’s MVP, in tears at the postgame news conference as he explained how he and his teammates had a mission to prove they belonged on the 2028 Olympic flag football team over some of the NFL’s best.
“We came out this weekend with that on our minds,” Doucette said. “To say, ‘Hey, let’s show these guys that we are talented. That we are flag football and not to be overlooked by anyone in the world.’”
Doucette and his team did exactly that — and some of the globe’s most famous faces sure got a great look at it.
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