Lil Wayne Bringing Sports Fandom To Weekly Guest Spot On ‘NFL GameDay Morning’
Lil Wayne is among the loudest and proudest sports fans in the Hip-Hop community. Starting this weekend, he will bring his Green Bay Packers loyalty and overall football insight to NFL Network’s NFL GameDay Morning.
The NFL revealed Weezy F Baby as their new weekly guest this past Monday (Nov. 11). He will join their already loaded cast which boasts Rich Eisen, Kurt Warner, Steve Mariucci, Ian Rapoport, Mike Garafolo, Tom Pelissero, and a slew of lauded reporters next Sunday (Nov. 17).
Wayne’s guest spot was first teased during halftime of the New York Giants’ and Carolina Panthers’ game on Sunday morning (Nov. 10), live from Munich, Germany. The “A Milli” rapper is no stranger to talking sports, as he recently was a recurring guest on FS1’s Undisputed starring Skip Bayless.
Lil Wayne’s history of sports talk goes back even further than that. He used to contribute blog posts to ESPN The Magazine and joined Around The Horn as a guest in 2009. He even found creative ways to bring together football and music, like his 2011 track “Green & Yellow” which was an homage to the Green Bay Packers. In 2016, he created “No Mercy” which was Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless’ theme song on Undisputed.
The New Orleans rapper gaining even more proximity to the NFL comes just two months after he was perceived to be slighted when they selected Kendrick Lamar to perform at Super Bowl LIX’s halftime show this upcoming February in his hometown. He had expressed his desire to perform less than a year ago and admitted that it “broke him” to not be picked.
“That hurt. It hurt a lot,” he said in a video. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.”
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