“You owe me this favor, bro. I used to be there for you once you gained it,” rapper tells Matthew Stafford. “Are you able to simply allow us to have this one?”
Eminem, along with being a Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame-inducted rapper, can also be a long-suffering Detroit Lions fan. In a promo reduce earlier than the crew’s playoff sport Sunday towards the Los Angeles Rams, Eminem asks former Lions (and now Rams) quarterback Matthew Stafford to assist him and Detroit out.
“Stafford, what’d I say?” Eminem asks within the video NBC shared throughout Saturday’s Chiefs-Dolphins sport. “You owe me this favor, bro. I used to be there for you once you gained it. I used to be there for you. I used to be proper there. I rapped for you Stafford. Bro, I rapped for you!”
Stafford spent 12 years on the Lions, shedding within the playoffs 3 times within the first spherical. He was traded to the Rams in 2021 (for now-Lions QB Jared Goff) and instantly gained the Tremendous Bowl on the helm of the Los Angeles crew.
The Lions, house owners of the longest drought and not using a playoff victory in NFL historical past, haven’t gained a playoff sport since January 1992. In addition they haven’t performed a playoff sport at house since January 1994, once they misplaced to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. The Lions’ seven playoff video games since then — all losses — have taken place on the street. Sunday marks the Lions’ first playoff sport at Detroit’s Ford Area, which opened in 1999.
Eminem, who just lately appeared in a documentary about Lions legend Barry Sanders, made on final plea, “Are you able to simply allow us to have this one? Simply this one?”
