The Notre Dame Prep Basketball Team Lands a FaceTime Call with Super Bowl Champs After Messaging the Wrong Number

Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady greet the team on video

The Notre Dame Prep freshman basketball team had a call that they will never forget

Everyone has texted or called the wrong number at one point in their lives. However, for a boy’s freshman basketball team in Michigan, they had an encounter that they won’t soon forget.

Members of the Notre Dame Prep freshman basketball team became involved on a FaceTime call with reigning Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady and members of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers locker room. This took place after one of the basketball players entered the wrong phone number in a group text.

“That was fun,” Brady said. “That was really fun. It was really good to see all those young kids hyped up.”
The insane scenario began when Vinny Tartaglia began a group text for the members of the boy’s freshman basketball team for some of their upcoming practice. However, Tartaglia incorrectly put in one digit for one of his teammates.
The number ended up belonging to Buccaneers cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting.

“Y’all meant to add me to this?” the person Tartaglia inadvertently messaged asked. “You know who I am?” The person then revealed his identity.

“I’m Sean Murphy-Bunting,” the Michigan native and cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wrote before sending along with a selfie of himself in the team’s locker room.

The high schoolers in the chat didn’t believe him.

Murphy-Bunting then FaceTimed them, offering a one-of-a-kind meet and greet with the Bucs players.
“Leonard Fournette walked us through the locker room and showed us all the players,” Nate Seaman, one of the teens in the group chat, said. “Sean Murphy-Bunting, Mike Evans, Lavonte David, Gronk (Rob Gronkowski), Richard Sherman. That’s when we all said, ‘Where’s the GOAT?'”

A few minutes later, none other than star quarterback Tom Brady appeared on the screen and asked, “What’s up, fellas?”

The teens “lost their minds,” P. Jason Whalen, a father of one of them and a counselor at the school, shared in a Twitter thread.

“They didn’t have to do that for us,” Seaman said. “They could have easily said, ‘I’m going to leave the group chat’ and just left, but Murphy-Bunting and Fournette made our day.”

The call ended with Murphy-Bunting saying “ball out this season” to the boys.
“What an awesome experience for our boys and what an amazing group of guys on the Buccaneers,” Whalen tweeted on the serendipitous call. “I’m sure they had a good time laughing at the fact that the Super Bowl champs got randomly added to a freshman basketball team group chat.”

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