Tom Grossi returns with 30 NFL stadiums tour to support St Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Get ready, football fans: Comedian and YouTuber Tom Grossi is at it again. He’s keeping a promise he made three years ago — visiting 30 NFL stadiums in 30 days this summer and bringing fans along to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. 

The NFL stadium visits, which he calls “30 in 30 Part Deux”, comes three years after his first stadium tour in 2023.  The fundraiser raised more than $500,000  with every football stadium visit drawing more and more football fans, who were happy to donate whatever they could for the children of St. Jude. They auctioned some of their prized possessions. Grossi, a fan of the Green Bay Packers, provided incentives to draw more donations. He said he was moved with the “inherent kindness of people.”  

Grossi vowed then to embark on a second tour once he reached 1 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He reached that milestone in early 2026.

“I didn’t think it would happen this quickly, but it did, so we are on the road again,” he said.  

Grossi is hoping his third St. Jude fundraiser will carry him past the $1 million mark for the research hospital and the children it serves.

“Being a former teacher and knowing kids who have had cancer and gone through that experience, it's very eye-opening,” he said. “Unfortunately, we are in a world where the system doesn’t allow every kid that is sick to get the kind of treatment that they need. Even if we raise $500,000 and that helps one kid, for that one family that is legitimately life-changing.” 

Among Grossi’s followers is 16-year-old Jacob, who was treated at St. Jude for brain cancer.  Jacob met Grossi at a fan event in April of 2025 before the NFL draft at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers. Jacob, whose bedroom is decked out in Green Bay Packers green — and who is described by his mom as a “walking Packers’ mascot” — was excited to meet Grossi.

“Meeting Tom Grossi was awesome, I absolutely love what he does for St. Jude,” Jacob said. 

 His mom, Nichole, said she’s grateful for Grossi’s efforts.

“He’s highlighting what they do at the hospital, and I appreciate his work immensely and all the good things they are doing to make kids happy,” Nichole said.  

 An international tour

“30 in 30 Part Deux” is the third Grossi-led fundraiser to benefit St. Jude. It comes two years after Grossi launched his second St. Jude fundraiser, when he traveled internationally to meet some of the “greatest NFL fans in the world,” visiting seven stadiums across five countries in 10 days. He started in England, followed by stadiums in Germany, Spain, Mexico and Brazil. He visited stadiums in cities which have held NFL games.  

The trip was filled with unforgettable landscapes, meetups with football fans and moments of laughter thanks to donation incentives, including one where Grossi, secured to a steel safety rail, made the climb to the roof edge of one stadium before dropping nearly 138 feet to the ground. He also took a flamenco dance class in Spain and played in a pickup soccer game in a park in Sao Pablo. During each adventure, he always reminded himself and the audience that it was all for the children of St. Jude.

“I scored a goal in Brazil, for the kids,” Grossi said moments after he made the goal and recorded for his YouTube channel. 

The tours don’t always go smoothly. On the international tour, for instance, he pushed through a case of food poisoning while having to wrestle in a lucha libre match. 

Grossi’s goal was to raise $100,000 from the international stadium tour, and by the end of his trip, while he was in Brazil, he reached his goal. In total, he raised nearly $188,000. He said every dollar raised was given by “ordinary people” looking to do “chaotic good.”  

“It wasn’t always easy, sleep was almost never had, but every second of it, even getting sick, I loved,” Grossi said in his video recapping his trip to Brazil. “Because it was part of a story. The story of a guy in his basement, who was a schoolteacher, and started a podcast nine years ago, because he loved the Green Bay Packers and NFL Football. … I got the chance to travel around the world to meet some of the greatest and most passionate fans I have ever met, and of course, we did it all for the kids.”  

His 2026 tour will begin where the first one ended — at SoFi Stadium in California, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers. It will conclude where it began in 2023: Green Bay’s Lambeau Field. Grossi said his visits, which he will again document on his YouTube channel, will showcase not only each NFL city, but most importantly each NFL fan base. The free fan events will be held at various locations and will include donation incentives.