Backstage at the Grammy Awards, artists were milling about — some greeting one another, some in their dressing rooms getting ready to take the stage. Lil Wayne and Drake, meanwhile, were as calm as if they were sitting in Weezy’s Miami condo watching “SportsCenter.”
Drake brought up Sunday’s Super Bowl: “You excited about it?” he asked Wayne.
“I’m a Brett Favre fan,” Wayne said of the Minnesota Vikings quarterback, who was knocked out of the running by the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game. “Football season ended for me [two weeks ago].”
We caught up with Weezy late last month, days before the Vikings were edged out by the Saints, and he was pulling for Minnesota to come out on top. “I’m rooting for Brett because I’m a die-hard,” Weezy told MTV News. “I believe the Vikings will win because of the running attack. The Saints give up about 150 rushing yards a game, and the Vikings have arguably the best running back in the game [Adrian Peterson]. … I believe the Vikings defense will frustrate [Saints quarterback Drew] Brees.”
While some N.O. residents were upset about Wayne going against his hometown, let’s not forget that Favre is from right around the corner, in the city of Kiln, Mississippi, less than a two-hour drive away.
Backstage at the Grammys, Weezy told Drizzy that he was still on the fence about attending the Super Bowl in Miami, where he now lives. “I may still go, though,” he said. ” ‘Cause it is New Orleans in there. … If they win it and [there], that’ll be right. At least I get to say I saw it.”
When DJ Scoob Doo asked Drake who he thought would win, the Toronto native gave it up to the Black and Gold.
“New Orleans [is] playing with heart, man,” Drake said.
“Yeah, I want New Orleans to win,” Wayne chimed in. “They playing with a lot of heart. Saints gonna win.”
A few days prior to the Grammys, Wayne was in an Atlanta studio with Playaz Circle’s Tity Boi and Young Money members Short Dawg and Gudda Gudda shooting footage for Weezy and Scoob Doo’s next installment in “The Nino Brown Story” DVD series. Gudda, also a New Orleans native, thought Peyton Manning and his squad from Indianapolis would pull it out.
“I love my city. I love the Saints,” Gudda clarified. “But I been rocking with the Colts for years. I got 20 racks on the Colts.”
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the colts been showin us who they are at their game but again saints showed heart and muscle this time lets see what happens……you can win one time but its hard to do it over again… lets see
weezy so cute(:
Go Saints
wayne papi you look very tired….!
Lil Wayne’s sad 4 not being a Saints fan. He’s all about New Orleans but doesn’t root of the heart of the city. The Saints have done more for NOLA then Lil Wayne ever did!! Go Saints!! Who Dat!! \\/\// ||-|| (()) ||)) //-\\ ” || “
Saints are going 2 Kick Ass!……WHO DAT?
Go saints! Come on Wayne! It’s ur home town playin in the game of the year jus around the corner from u! An u got enough dough to by the whole place! U better go! It’s one of ur last few days of freedom!..btw free Wayne
Colts will win… no good but there only there because farve made a bad move…. hands down indy has all the tools D and O…. that’s the key…. go colts
Just because he is from there doesn’t make him a bad person for thinking a different team can beat the saints. It’s just a football team. He has mad love for new orleans.
WHAT UP LIL WAYNE JUST WANT TO THANK U…U INSPIRE PPL BY UR LYRICS THAT ARE REAL. AN PPL LIKE ME WHO 4RM THE HOOD /AN U EVEN INSPIRE WEALTHY PPL TO BE BETTA PPL TO WHO HAVE WAY LESS.ALSO U MAKE RAP SUMTHIN PPL NEED NOT WANT..BASICALLY U MOVE PPL AN MAKE THEM WANNA IMPROVE THIER TALENT..UR MUSIC IS INSPIRATIONAL ..TO THE HOOD ITS HEROIN ..U ARE A MAGNIFACENT RAPPA ,FATHER,ARTIST,CEO,MODEVATOR,HOMIE TO THE HOOD..OH AN WRITTER/ROCKER…LET ME END THIS BEFORE I WRITE A DICTIONARY ..LOL….ATX WILL 4 EVA AN A DAY BUMP YO S.HIT..U THE GREATEST MWA LUV U MY HOMIE….FREE WAYNE
WAYNE keep it popn 100%..one
saints kicked some fuckin ass!! go new orleans! young moolah bitches!
HOW BOUT DEM MUTHAFUKEN SAINTS…hahahaha BOOO YAAA… dey deserve it…
it dont matter who won the bowl san diego wasn’t there
so crazy that he would pick new orleans! never woulda guessed…