A White House visit is nice and all, but the U.S. women’s Winter Olympics hockey team just got the ultimate invite from their No. 1 fan, Public Enemy‘s Flavor Flav. After launching a GoFundMe last month to help pay for the cost of his planned She Got Game Las Vegas blowout weekend for the athletes who took the gold at he 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, Flav is doing everything he can to make sure the women have the most epic weekend ever.
On Sunday (March 15), Flav announced that he scored attendees tickets to see Ed Sheeran‘s Loop Tour at Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on July 18. “This is PERFECT!! Our athletes are going to watch and meet Ed Sheeran at his show at Allegiant Stadium. Thanks to Ed, his team at The Team, the Raiders, and Allegiant Stadium. Way to go us A-TEAM,” Flav wrote in an X post announcing the news.
That’s not the only special event Flav has lined up for the athletes from the U.S. women’s national ice hockey team and other female American winter sports athletes who medaled during the Winter Games. The She Got Game weekend (July 16-19) — inspired by widely criticized comments from Donald Trump who joked that he would probably face backlash if he didn’t also invite the gold medal-winning women to the White House along with the gold medal-winning men’s team — will also get to meet the Backstreet Boys and see the legendary boy band at the Sphere during their summer Into the Millennium residency run.
The news came in a post from Flav on Saturday morning (March 14) in which he dialed up BSB member AJ McLean to share the good news. “I saw the video that you posted the other day about the U.S. Women’s Olympic team,” McLean told Flav. “And I was blown away, dude. Good for you, man! These ladies deserve their flowers. They deserve their respect.”
McLean asked what the BSB could do to help and pay their respects, then added, “I want to invite all the ladies to our show in Vegas this summer,” he said as Flav got hyped about the invite and checked to make sure McLean was for real. “I’m 100% serious,” he assured the rapper. “I’m a girl dad, bro. My daughters watching these young ladies achieve greatness inspires my kids.”
McLean invited all the women to the show and, not for nothing, suggested they dress in white to match the suggested dress code for the gigs. “I can’t wait to tell them this and believe me, the whole doggone team is gonna be stoked, man,” Flav said. “Let’s goooooo!!!!”
At press time, Flav’s GoFundMe for the She Got Game weekend had raised $121,000 of its $130,000 goal. Flav previously promised that the funds would go toward tickets for shows, dinners and “good times,” and, according to ESPN, he’s partnered with MGM Resorts to help make it happen.
It’s still not clear how many of the we Team USA players plan to attend the weekend of festivities. Unlike the majority of the U.S. men’s gold medal-winning Winter Olympics hockey team, the women declined an invitation to the White House and the State of the Union address last month citing scheduling conflicts and logistical issues. The women captured the gold in a thrilling 2-1 defeat of arch rival Canada on Feb. 19, which included a third-period goal to force overtime, before clinching the victory in OT.
Flav has a vocal champion of women’s athletics for years, serving as the official hype man for the U.S. bobsled team at the 2026 Winter Olympics and also helping to sponsor the U.S. men’s and women’s U.S. water polo teams, including raising funds to help the women’s team travel to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
See Flav’s posts below.
