Watch Snoop Dogg Take Over the Arizona Bowl

In in all probability the second-most viral sport of the 2024 school season in the back of the Pop-Tarts Bowl, Snoop Dogg served as host of this yr’s Arizona Bowl, with the rapper taking up all sides of the matchup, from sponsor to bandleader to play-by-play announcer.

Formally dubbed “the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl offered by means of Gin & Juice by means of Dre and Snoop,” the rapper made the sport at Tucson’s Arizona Stadium his personal, even eclipsing that motion at the box between Colorado State and Miami (Ohio).

The sphere was once emblazoned with a Snoop Dogg emblem at one finish zone and occasional riders within the different. Pregame, Snoop Dogg snagged passes at the box or even visited some tailgate events earlier than taking to the 50-yard line for the ceremonial coin toss, the Related Press experiences.

Snoop — who based his personal Snoop League for inside town formative years in Southern California and whose son performed Department I soccer — additionally placed on a headset at the Colorado State sideline to allegedly name some performs. By means of halftime, the rapper was once again at midfield to function conductor for the 2 universities’ bands efficiency:

Within the 3rd quarter, Snoop subsequent joined the printed sales space. “It is a seven-day-a-week factor with me, guy,” Snoop Dogg mentioned. “I suppose I’m the folks’s champ as a result of I like the folks up to they love me.”

Miami (Ohio) received the Arizona Bowl 43-17, and then Snoop Dogg rolled onto the sector in a 1964 Impala with trophy in hand for the victors. He additionally proficient Dying Row Data gold chains to the crew, and took trainer Chuck Martin on a victory lap within the Impala.

“I’m sitting there with a gold chain and my spouse is guffawing her ass off. Snoop’s there … who on the earth is cooler than Snoop?” Martin informed the clicking postgame. “I’m sitting at the back of this car and my spouse is taking a look at me like, ‘What a whole imbecile.’ It’s a second you’ll be mindful eternally.” 

Within the weeks main as much as the sport, Snoop published that the entire individuals would obtain NIL (title symbol likeness) cash for enjoying within the sport. “Faculty soccer enthusiasts are exhausted by means of the consistent communicate round NIL, convention realignment, trainer motion, switch portal and tremendous meetings,” Snoop mentioned in a video posted on social media. “So it’s time that we get again to the roots of school soccer — when it was once targeted at the faculties, the gamers and the contest, the neighborhood, the fan enjoy and the pageantry.”