--- title: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tom Brady Offer Chance to Hang Out description: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Tom Brady announced a chance for fans to spend a day eating pizza, drinking beer and talking football with them. canonical: https://time.com/4513669/matt-damon-ben-affleck-tom-brady-hang-out/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-29T20:35:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:11.643Z og:title: Here's Your Chance to Have Pizza and Beer with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Tom Brady og:description: And Matt Damon's man bun og:url: https://time.com/4513669/matt-damon-ben-affleck-tom-brady-hang-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Your Chance to Have Pizza and Beer with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Tom Brady twitter:description: And Matt Damon's man bun twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Your Chance to Have Pizza and Beer with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Tom Brady > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 29, 2016 8:35 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 29, 2016 8:35 PM UTC Everyone knows that [Matt Damon](http://time.com/4473441/jimmy-kimmel-matt-damon-feud-history-timeline/) and [Ben Affleck](http://time.com/4470963/ben-affleck-deathstroke-batman/) have been friends for years, but when [Tom Brady](http://time.com/4168022/tom-brady-diet-personal-chef-gisele-bundchen/) enters the mix, things apparently get a bit tense between the Boston fans. In a video posted to the New England Patriots quarterback’s Facebook Thursday, the trio announced a chance for two lucky fans to spend a day eating pizza, drinking beer and talking football with them in Beantown. Unfortunately, the actors couldn’t stop arguing over who is better friends with the four-time Super Bowl champion. “For the record, [Matt Damon](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Damon/104009729636866) and [Ben Affleck](https://www.facebook.com/benaffleck/) (listed in no particular order) do NOT pay me to be their friend,” Brady captioned the clip. “All jokes aside, we’d really love for you to hang with us in Boston (flights and hotel are on us)!” Fans can enter the contest by purchasing entries on the fundraiser’s [Omaze site](https://www.omaze.com/experiences/Matt-Ben-Tom?utm%5Fsource=facebook.com&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=TomBrady&utm%5Fcampaign=experiences.matt-ben-tom&utm%5Fterm=LaunchVideo&oa%5Fh=mb24zs) to benefit three different charities: the [Eastern Congo Initiative](http://www.easterncongo.org), [Water.org](http://water.org) and the [TB12 Foundation](http://tb12foundation.com). 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