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| Lil Wayne performs onstage at DTE Energy Music Theater on September 10, 2019 in Clarkston, Michigan. (Photo: Aaron J. Thornton, WireImage) |
Lil Wayne was apparently on Santa's "good" list this year.
The
rap legend took to Instagram Friday night to show off his new Christmas
gift — a football from the Green Bay Packers seemingly signed by all
the players and coaches.
"I was blessed by the
best team in the world," Lil Wayne said in the two-minute clip from his
sports memorabilia room. "I just want to say thank you from the bottom,
the top, of my heart, everything. You already know that's my team
forever, and ever, and ever."
In the video, you can see at least three Packers
helmets covered in autographs. He also shows off a Lambeau Field sign
sent from Green Bay and a Donald Driver bobblehead signed by the Packers
great.
As of Saturday morning, Lil Wayne's post
has been seen more than 1.6 million times, with some fans critical that
Wayne isn't a diehard supporter of his hometown New Orleans Saints.
But
Wayne has long been vocal about his Packers love, even dropping a
"Green and Yellow" anthem to support the Super Bowl-bound Packers in
2011. In an NFL Network interview in 2017, he explained that when the
Packers played the Super Bowl in New Orleans in 1997, "my pops went to
the Super Bowl and when he came home he had a bunch of Green Bay
everything: towels, cups and all that type of stuff. … I had to use that
cup every day and use that towel every other day, so I became a Packer
fan like that."
In the Instagram video posted Friday, Wayne teased he
might even show up at the Packers first playoff game in Green Bay. "It's
going to be cold," he said in his Instagram video. "I might have to
throw on a yellow mink."
"Let's go all the way to
the Bowl," Lil Wayne said later in the video. "Come get to Miami — I'll
be waiting. Please, please, please, please. Kick their ass! Go Pack
Go!"
You can see if Wayne shows up at Lambeau with that yellow mink for that playoff game Jan. 12.
From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/01/04/green-bay-packers-gave-lil-wayne-christmas-gift-any-cheesehead-would-crave/2812757001/
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