Sports reporter Katie Nolan reveals Tom Brady walked in on her in a BRA before an interview
Former ESPN reporter Katie Nolan has opened up on the horrifying moment Tom Brady walked in on her while she was getting changed.
Nolan was preparing to interview Brady's New England Patriots
But the decision backfired quite dramatically when she got stuck trying change her top while the NFL great Brady happened to walk in on her by accident.
Explaining on Mad Dog Sports Radio, Nolan said: 'I had been going back and forth all the way down that long hallway to the bathroom.
'I reached a point where I was like, "no one’s back here, I’m just gonna swap my shirt in the hallway." And I was changing into a shirt that was a button-up and it had all of its buttons buttoned, and I didn’t realize that.
'So, as I’m trying to do this quick change and I rip my shirt off and put another shirt on over me, my head gets stuck.
'The shirt is half on and I’m trying to unbutton the buttons that are up at the top so my head can pop out. And as I’m doing this, I hear a door to my left creak open, I hear cleats walking across the floor in front of me.
'I pop my head through the hole between two buttons and I realize that I’m standing there in an ugly bra as Tom Brady walks past me out to get to the field. Tom Brady saw me stuck in my shirt, awkwardly in the hallway of the visiting locker room.'
To add to Nolan's embarrasment, she is a big Patriots fan. Her subsequent interview with Edelman is still on YouTube, with Nolan wearing the offending shirt.
Nolan's ESPN colleague at the time, Megan Kelly, retweeted footage of Nolan explaining the awkward incident and added: 'God I love this story. As a witness I can confirm this really happened and she is not exaggerating it in the slightest.'
She was in the Patriots building to preview the 2017 Divisional Playoff Round game against the Houston Texans, which Brady and Edelman's team would go on to win 34-16.
And the season would end in one of the most dramatic Super Bowls in history, with Brady's team fighting back from a 28-3 deficit at the hands of the Atlanta Falcons to clinch victory.
To many, the 34-28 overtime trumph is considered to be the greatest comeback in all of sports.
That victory was the fifth of seven Super Bowl titles Brady would win across the course of his all-conquering career.
Brady won one more with the Patriots, two years later in 2019. He then left for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leading the franchise to Super Bowl glory in 2021.
Nolan, meanwhile, left ESPN that year, ending her four years with the broadcaster.
She started her role as a host on Sirius XM's Mad Dog radio this September, just before the start of the current NFL season.
‘Hypocritical’ NFL Leverage Rule Sends Broncos Reeling
In football, just like in life, leverage can mean everything.
In life it’s usually a great thing. In the NFL, it can be good
Good leverage: Using whatever mode you can — including other players as wedges or springboards — to get in the end zone or get a first down in short yardage situations. Just like what we see every week from the Philadelphia Eagles and their famous “Tush Push” play.
Bad leverage: Denver Broncos defensive lineman Dondrea Tillman getting called for using leverage to block a potential game winning, 60-yard field goal by Indianapolis Colts kicker Spencer Shrader as time expired — an attempt that came up woefully short.
After Tillman’s 15-yard penalty, Shrader nailed the 45-yard field goal for a 29-28 upset win at Lucas Oil Stadium for the Colts’ first 2-0 start since 2009 — when Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning was still their starting quarterback.
It’s yet another example of a hypocritical, confusing set of rules that came on a weekend where frustrations were at an all time high with the Eagles and the Tush Push as they used it 5 times in the fourth quarter of a 20-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
“Explain to me this, people who run football,” Bill Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” on September 14. “Here’s my question … leverage is apparently unsafe for the center (on kicks) for the center because (Tillman) leaned down on him so the other guy could jump behind him. So what’s the tush push? It’s safe to have a running back and another guy shove the quarterback behind his teammates? That’s not leverage? So is leverage good or bad? What is it? What do we do in the NFL?”
This was the 51st time “Leverage” has been called since 2010 (3037 Total Games Played, 1.65% Call-Rate)
“Leverage” has only been mostly used in games where money is on the kicking team that needs the FG to cover some type of Spread/ML for Vegas.pic.twitter.com/4LPDoGYeAc
— 𝓒 𝓜 𝓒 (@ShutdownSurtain) September 14, 2025
Broncos Don’t Place Blame on NFL
One person who didn’t take the NFL to task over the Broncos loss was head coach Sean Payton, who refused to blame the loss on the penalty.
“We did a lot of things late in that game to keep ourselves from winning,” Payton told ESPN. “It’ll be painful to watch that film. There will be a bitter taste for a little while. We put ourselves in position to control the game late. Then, it slipped out of our hands.”
Online reaction was far less muted.
“Refs literally swung a game result from a Broncos win to a Colts win calling this leverage on the final play,” Bad Sports Refs wrote on its official X account.
“The leverage rule is stupid because it affected my team negatively and therefore it should be changed,” X user Brandon Perna wrote on his official X account.”I hate football. It’s stupid and all the rules are dumb.”
“Look, the Broncos had multiple mistakes and shouldn’t have let it go down to the final play, and players should have been extra careful on a 60-yard attempt,” USA Today’s Jon Heath wrote. “But if officials are going to call leverage, you can call it on countless kicks.”
“The Broncos got screwed by the refs,” Benchwarmer Sports wrote on its official X account.
“If you put the Broncos’ loss on the leverage call at the end of the game, you’re doing it wrong,” Broncos Reporter Andrew Mason wrote on his official X account. ” … the responsibility can be spread all around, including re: a defense that has been diced up too often in Denver’s last eight games.”
