The saying goes “not all heroes put on capes,” however what isn’t typically mentioned is that some heroes rock gold tooth, put on huge clocks, and are those who’re least prone to be there when the rubber meets the highway. Typically, heroes are simply individuals who give a rattling sufficient to think about others even after they don’t “should.”
Taste Flav is a hero. Public Enemy’s extra traditionally colourful half has proved himself to be an ally to girls’s athletics in a means that many males of his period haven’t. Through the summer season Olympics of 2025, Flav made headlines by his earnest and enthusiastic assist of the gymnast Jordan Chiles and the USA girls’s water polo group. The truth is, Flav signed a five-year deal to be the official hype man of the game with the hopes of bringing extra eyes to the competitors.
Following the USA girls’s hockey group taking the gold, Donald Trump prolonged them a backhanded invite to the White Home for a nationwide celebration throughout final night time’s State of the Union handle; nonetheless, the women have been “unavailable” to attend. The group launched a public assertion “politely declining” the invite.
“We’re sincerely grateful for the invitation prolonged to our gold medal–successful U.S. Ladies’s Hockey Workforce and deeply recognize the popularity of their extraordinary achievement,” a spokesperson for USA Hockey informed the outlet. Because of the timing and beforehand scheduled tutorial {and professional} commitments following the Video games, the athletes are unable to take part.”
Upon listening to the information, Flav instantly jumped in to ask the women to a celebration on his dime.
“I’m reaching out on behalf of Taste Flav. First, huge congratulations on the gold!! We noticed the story concerning the males’s invite to the White Home, and the not-quite invite for the ladies’s group. Flav just lately posted on social media an thought and an invite for the ladies’s hockey group to Las Vegas for an actual celebration. He all the time stands behind all the pieces he says and does. If there’s an curiosity for the group to come back to Las Vegas and have a good time with Flav, we are going to determine it out on our finish and make it a stunning expertise.”
Shoutout to Flav and the gold medal-winning girls’s nationwide hockey group!
