Vinny Tartaglia, a player for the Notre Dame Preparatory School basketball team in Michigan, said he was in charge of adding numbers to the team's group text, and he made a mistake while putting in one of the numbers.
The group soon received a message from the owner of the wrong number, who wrote: "Ya'll meant to add me to this? You know who I am?"
The number belonged to Sean Murphy-Bunting, a Michigan native and cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the defending Super Bowl champions.
Murphy-Bunting sent the students a selfie, but they were skeptical.
The team's skepticism was laid to rest moments later when Murphy-Bunting initiated a FaceTime call from the Buccaneers' locker room.
"Leonard Fournette walked us through the locker room and showed us all the players," teammate Nate Seaman said. "Sean Murphy-Bunting, Mike Evans, Lavonte Davis, Gronk, Richard Sherman. That's when we all said, where's the GOAT?"
The question was answered a few minutes later when Tom Brady entered the locker room and chatted with the students.