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Over the past couple of years, Morgan Wallen's pre-show walk-outs have become spectacles in themselves. The lights dim, the crowd roars and the angsty, rattling intro to ‘Broadway Girls’ echoes around the stadium, as the JumboTron flickers to life, displaying a grinning Wallen as he makes his way towards the stage.
As his WWE-inspired walk-outs have become more and more prominent, Wallen has increasingly called on his A-list friends to help give them an added sense of occasion.
This means his pre-show routine has evolved into a who's-who of local stars - often from the sports arena - with fans excitedly speculating which celebrities will be joining him next.
Over the past couple of years, we've had Mike Tyson, Tom Brady, Travis Kelce, the late Hulk Hogan and many more, and in the last few months alone, we've seen surprise appearances from the likes of Drake, Barry Bonds, Mattress Mack and Brett Favre.
However, some fans are already claiming that, this weekend, he just delivered the greatest walk-out of 2025 so far, with Wallen being joined by San Francisco 49ers legends, George Kittle and Trent Williams, ahead of his Santa Clara, California show.
Wallen was delivering the second date of his double-header at Levi's Stadium, the home of the 49ers, with the packed-out audience roaring their approval as he emerged on-screen with these two local heroes. Kittle - who joined Luke Combs at the same venue last year - helped to hype up the already-ecstatic crowd by shotgunning a beer without missing a step, with Wallen laughing alongside him.
It was classic George Kittle, and it embodied the rowdy, unashamedly braggadocious theatre of Morgan Wallen's walk-outs. The ‘Last Night’ chart-topper and Trent Williams simply smiled and gestured enthusiastically to the crowd as Kittle finished his beer, and then proceeded to pull out another can from who knows where.
It brings to mind Kittle's cameo during Luke Combs’ Santa Clara show last May, when the tight-end destroyed countless beers as his team-mate, Brock Purdy, threw them his way.
At Wallen's show, it set the tone for the raucous, unruly evening ahead, with the fact that many inside Levi's Stadium were San Francisco 49ers supporters adding extra lustre to the moment. As a result, although the ‘What I Want’ crooner still has eight shows left on his 2025 I'm the Problem Tour, some fans are championing this walk-out with Trent Williams and George Kittle as the best one of the year so far.
We definitely see their point, and this was undoubtedly one of the more energetic walk-outs in recent memory - especially compared to Marshawn Lynch's hilarious appearance and subsequent disappearance in Seattle the previous weekend.
However, in our opinion, it's hard to top Morgan Wallen's walk-out with Drake and Houston Astros pitcher, Roger Clemons, in Texas in June. Clemons ensured the walk-out had the hometown sentimentality, while the way Wallen teased an unexpected guest off-camera, before rap legend Drake came into shot, was simply iconic.
That walk-out reignited the frenzy of fans calling for Morgan Wallen and Drake to join forces in the studio, with rumours of a collaboration first arising after Wallen had an unexpected role in the Toronto rapper's 2023 ‘You Broke My Heart’ music video.
This flood of conjecture and delirium surrounding Wallen and ‘The Boy’ has cemented this walk-out as a pop culture moment, with all eyes now on the former's September show in Drake's home-city of Toronto as a potential launch for their potential link-up.
With Morgan Wallen's pre-show walk-out a beloved staple in today's country world, we can't wait to see who he has up his sleeve for his remaining I'm the Problem tour-stops in Ohio, Massachusetts, Ontario and Alberta. Perhaps the best is yet to come...
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