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

By Mike Santa Barbara | Last updated Sep 28, 2023 9:01 PM ET

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.

Lil Wayne leads the @Packers out of the tunnel @LilTunechi #DETvsGB on Prime Video
Also available on #NFLPlus https://t.co/zUoTWf7h2y pic.twitter.com/i3WWoRBJpw
— NFL (@NFL) September 29, 2023

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.

My man Lil Wayne is EVERYWHERE. At Lambeau, he just led the Packers out for kickoff. Hoping he can make it to Boulder by tomorrow morning to join us live on Undisputed. We here!
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) September 29, 2023

Mike Santa Barbara

Mike Santa Barbara is a Wilmington, Delaware native (Yes, it's a real place) with over a decade of sports writing experience. A diehard Philadelphia sports fan, he has two dogs named after Flyers and cried real tears when the Eagles won Super Bowl LII. You can follow him on Twitter at @mike__sb

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