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Watch: Lil Wayne leads Packers onto the field ahead of 'TNF' matchup with Lions

Hip-hop icon Lil Wayne took time away from being the hype man for the Deion Sanders-led Colorado Buffaloes to do the same for his beloved Green Bay Packers ahead of their massive "Thursday Night Football" matchup with NFC North rival the Detroit Lions

A fired-up Weezy led the charge as the Packers emerged from the smoke-filled tunnel at Lambeau Field.

Despite being a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, the rapper has been a Packers fan since Super Bowl XXXI after his father, who attended the game, returned home with plenty of Green Bay memorabilia, like towels, cups and the like. 

"They get put with the real towels. You bathe and use those towels every day, and those cups are used every day," he said, via the Huffington Post in 2015. "I had to use a Green Bay Packers cup, a Green Bay Packers towel every day — I'm a Green Bay fan forever." 

No word yet if Lil Wayne will make it to Boulder for Colorado's contest against the undefeated USC Trojans on Saturday, but ESPN's Skip Bayless sure hopes so.

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