Lil Wayne joins NFL Network's “NFL GameDay Morning” as a weekly guest

Lil Wayne enters the booth. Only this time he'll be firmly focused on running instead of rhyming. Legendary MC and sports fanatic to become regular weekly guest on NFL Network's NFL GameDay Morning show starting this Sunday (Nov. 17) according to an announcement from the NFL on Monday (Nov. 11).

Weezy will take his place with the rest Game Day crew, which includes Rich Eisen, Kurt Warner, Steve Mariucci, Gerald McCoy, Ian Rapoport, Cynthia Frelund, Colleen Wolfe, Mike Garafolo, Tom Pelissero, Daniel Jeremiah and Kyle Brandt, along with various NFL Network reporters such as Judy Battista, Bridget Condon, Stacey Dales, Omar Ruiz, Jane Slater, Sara Walsh, Cameron Wolfe and Steve Wyche.

The news was announced at halftime during Sunday's New York Giants/Carolina Panthers game in Munich, Germany along with a video of Wayne running on the field with his beloved Green Bay Packers. Back in 2021, Wayne dropped his official Packers theme song, “Green & Yellow“, in which he raps, “Once a Packer, always a Packer/ Like Shakur, call me 'two-pack'/ I'm green and yellow.”

Wayne's connection to the NFL predates his blog posts by almost two decades ESPN the Magazine and a 2009 spot on ESPN's Daily Show Roundtable, Around the Hornfollowed by him offering his track “No Mercy” in 2016 as the theme song for the sports talk show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.

In September, Wayne admitted that being snubbed for a first-place spot at next year's Super Bowl halftime in his hometown of New Orleans in favor of Kendrick Lamar “broke” him. “That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I'm talking about. It hurt a lot,” he said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a disappointment. And because I automatically mentally put myself in that position as someone told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought there was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so I hurt. It hurt a lot.”