It sounds like the United States women’s Olympic hockey team is ready to say “YEAH BOY!” to Flavor Flav’s invitation to Las Vegas to celebrate their Olympic gold medal.
The rapper invited the gold medal winners to Vegas for a celebration in a post on social media, and during a press conference Wednesday in Seattle, Alex Carpenter said the team would “fully take advantage of that and go have some fun.”
The invitation came on the heels of the controversy over comments made by President Donald Trump when speaking with the men’s team on Sunday, which also won gold, and told them, “we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that?” after inviting the men to Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
He added that he “probably would be impeached” if he didn’t invite the women.
The comment and the reaction of the men’s team to it set off a firestorm of backlash, though it also led to the invite from Flavor Flav.
“It was definitely super special after everything that’s been going around online to be able to have someone step up like that and really go to bat for us,” Carpenter said, while sitting next to her fellow Olympic and Seattle Torrent teammates. “I think we’ll finish our seasons up here and then I think we’re fully going to take advantage of that. Go have some fun and celebrate like we deserve to.”
In his invitation, which was posted on social media on Monday, the Public Enemy member wrote that he would treat the U.S. women’s hockey team to “some nice dinners and shows and good times.”
Carpenter, who said she had been messaging with Flavor Flav, was asked if she had any specific itinerary details in the works.
She responded that the group would let the rapper handle everything and they would “just have a good time.”
Flavor Flav was the official hype man for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams and is inviting members of those teams as well.
The women’s team was invited to Washington, D.C., for the SOTU, but they declined because of “timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.”
“We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,” a spokesperson for USA Hockey told NBC News.