USA women’s polo chooses Flavor Flav as propagandist for the Paris Olympics

Maggie Steffens asked for more support for the U.S. women’s water polo team, and the captain received one particularly surprising response.

From a watch-wearing rap icon.

Posted by Steffens’ post on Instagram, Flavor Flav helped the U.S. team win an unprecedented fourth consecutive gold medal at the Paris Summer Olympics. It is finalizing a deal that can make it a sponsor of water polo in the US and an official propagandist for a program geared toward increasing the highlight.

Flav, 65, the founder and propagator of Public Enemy propaganda, immediately threw himself into his recent duties, highlighting several of the team’s best players in social media. She also plans to observe the women’s team play in Paris.

“When I go out and watch the water polo team… ‘USA!’ USA!’ Yo, I’m gonna be the biggest hype they’ve ever experienced in their lives,” he he said AP on Friday. “I’m going to be larger than any cheerleader they’ve ever had of their life. I’ll root for this team and I’ll root for this team to win the gold medal.

The victory is the typical result for the U.S. women’s team since the 2012 Olympics. However, it has not attracted as much attention or support as similarly dominant American programs, largely because water polo stays a distinct segment sport in most of the world.

This – combined with a little bit of nostalgia – prompted 30-year-old Steffens, the last member of the 2012 band, to post on Instagram. Expressing her gratitude for the opportunity to play and her love for the sport, she also encouraged anyone reading the post to get to know her team and highlighted the ongoing financial struggles of most Olympians.

“We got a lot of comments like, ‘Oh, that’s great what you did.’ It’s a shame you’re not a soccer or basketball player because your team would get a lot more exposure and a lot more support,” Steffens said Friday from Paris, where the team is on a training trip ahead of the Olympics.

“Instead, we are still in the same place we were 12 years ago, which is not my goal. I always wanted to push the sport forward.”

In front of us is Flav, who, along with the group Public Enemy, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Flav’s manager brought this post to his attention and decided he desired to help.

“There’s one thing about me: I know what it’s like to want to make your dream come true,” said Flav, who is thought for wearing a big clock on a sequence around his neck. “I know what it’s like to want to achieve a goal, and I’m the type of person that if I see you trying, I’ll do everything I can to help you.”

Steffens said it was “very surreal” when Flav – whose legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr. – he contacted her. When asked what she knew about Flav and the Public Enemy before the merger, Steffens immediately mimicked the frequent “Flavor Flav!” declaration.

Steffens is certainly one of the oldest players on the U.S. team, but she said 24-year-old Ryann Neushul has Public Enemy in her top five players on Spotify. Several of the team’s coaches and Steffens’ family were also enthusiastic about the collaboration.

“My whole family was like, ‘Is this true?’ Flav is now part of the water polo world?” Steffens said. “I thought, ‘I don’t know what’s going on, but I want to wear a watch now and that’s how I feel.'”

Steffens and the American team even have one other major supporter in Taylor Swift. On Friday evening, at La Défense Arena – the venue of the women’s water polo final that took place on August 10, they took part in a concert by a musician from the Eras Tour.

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Women’s national team manager Ally Beck contacted Swift’s camp and surprised the team with tickets. Flav said he also contacted Swift’s team, but the tickets had already been approved.

Flav, who’s working on one other tour with Public Enemy that might start later this yr, then held up a T-shirt along with his picture and the words “KING SWIFTIE.”

“I’m proud to support Taylor. … Flavor Flav is the Swiftie, the king of all Swifties,” he said.

This is one other bond Flav shares along with his recent favorite band.