Hank Williams Jr says FUCK YOU to Monday Night Football!

[~Ray]

He and his rowdy friends are finished with monday night football.

BRISTOL, Conn.—Hank Williams Jr. will no longer sing the words "Are you ready for some football?" on Monday nights on ESPN.

Tweet Be the first to Tweet this!ShareThis Each side claimed Thursday it had decided to part ways after Williams' tune opened "Monday Night Football" for more than two decades. The network had pulled the intro for this week's game after the country singer used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama on Fox News on Monday morning.

Williams issued a statement Monday night insisting his remarks were misunderstood, then apologized Tuesday.

ESPN says: "We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams Jr."

But in a statement to The Associated Press, Williams says: "I have made MY decision. ... Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/con...ight_football/

[TrustCash]

Fucking cry baby.

[Phoenix]

well he should know better then to speak out about the feuhr...er i mean the president

[scuba steve]

hm i read somewhere he said his comments were misinterpreted and he apologized. espn still told him to fuck off. sounds like he is trying to save face

[~Ray]

Hank Williams Jr. and his iconic theme song will not return to ESPN's "Monday Night Football," the network announced Thursday.

In the wake of Williams using an analogy involving Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama to make a political point on the Fox News Channel, Williams' "All My Rowdy Friends" will no longer be part of the MNF opening.

"We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr," ESPN said in a statement. "We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue."

On his own website, Williams said he was the one who made the decision.


"After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision," he wrote. "By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run."

In an interview Monday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," Williams, unprompted, said of Obama's outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: "It'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."

Asked to clarify, Williams said, "They're the enemy," adding that by "they" he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

ESPN pulled Williams' opening to Monday night's Indianapolis-Tampa Bay game and issued a statement saying: "While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."

Williams, through his publicist, said on Monday: "Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme -- but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me -- how ludicrous that pairing was. They're polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president."

Tuesday, he issued another statement."The thought of the leaders of both parties jukin and high fiven on a golf course, while so many families are struggling to get by simply made me boil over and make a dumb statement," Williams wrote on Facebook and his website. "I am very sorry if it offended anyone."

Williams' song has been part of "Monday Night Football" since 1991 on both ESPN and ABC. He is a Grammy award winner who also was a three-time entertainer of the year from the Academy of Country Music in the 1980s.


http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/70...night-football

[SuckOnThis]

Wrong, they fired his dumb ass....

?We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr.,? ESPN said in a statement. ?We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue.?‬‬

Hank, of course, sees it differently. He claims that he has pulled his song from the show. Says Hank on his website: ?After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You [ESPN] stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It?s been a great run.?

Um, right. Hank apologized on Tuesday in the hopes of keeping the only thing that has kept him relevant for the last 25 years. And now that he?s being pushed, he?s trying to make it look like he jumped.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-quit/related/

[bronco67]

How is this Williams saying Fuck YOU to ESPN? They shitcanned him. Why is he trying to spin it like he left them?

[tony286]

The funny thing is the nazi were the right in germany not the liberals lol

[FlexxAeon]

silly. his words were taken way out of context

obama's gonna get blamed for this too

[madm1k3]

He got fired, He tried to apologize for the comments yesterday and when he still got fired he did what all losers do, issue a statement acting tough.

[Qbert]

Originally Posted by Hank Williams Jr.

You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech

Yet another idiot that doesn't really understand the First Amendment.

The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

Freedom of Speech does not apply to individuals or companies, only to government.

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by tony286

The funny thing is the nazi were the right in germany not the liberals lol

The National Socialist Workers Party really sounds like a conservative movement to me. But they were hardly what I would call a solcialist party, but calling them the right in germany isn't exactly what I would call them either

[Tom_PM]

Good. Never liked that stupid song. So annoying. 20 yrs of that? It seems more like 100.

[The Ghost]

He sure fucked up an easy gig.

[Just Mike]

thank god this turd is gone! Hank williams song sucked and I never understood why they played that shitty theme by a guy that only appealed to a small segment of our population.

Never even heard of the idiot till the NFL played his song


GOOD RIDDANCE!

[Sly]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

The National Socialist Workers Party really sounds like a conservative movement to me. But they were hardly what I would call a solcialist party, but calling them the right in germany isn't exactly what I would call them either

The Nazi Party is considered extreme right. Hitler hated Communism. He created his own mix really.

[~Ray]

I'll miss the song.. noit the man.

[blackmonsters]

Hank needs to get real.

He was fired for "appearing" to be drunk on the air. Period.

Monday night football cannot "prove" he was drunk as easy as they can prove
his words were stupid.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by SuckOnThis

Wrong, they fired his dumb ass....

yep they told him to pick up his jug of moonshine and get the fuck out.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Hank Williams, Jr.?s put forward a bizarre apology where he felt the need to say, ?Every time the media brings up the Tea Party it?s painted as racist and extremists ? but there?s never a backlash ? no outrage to those comparisons."

So a Tea Party supporter compares the Nation's first African American President to Hitler and then says it's a double standard to criticize him because no one gets mad at those who call the Tea Party racist.

The bigger question is why was ESPN surprised?

This is Hank Williams, Jr. we?re talking about, not Amy Grant. The man brags that he'll never stop "speaking my mind." Unfortunately, his mind resides somewhere on a plantation rocking chair.

It?s not just his past controversial statements, such as when he sang about Obama?s ?"terrorist friends? at a McCain Palin fundraiser in 2008. The guy actually wrote a song in 1988 about the Civil War called "If the South Would have Won.?

The lyrics are, "If the South would have won we would have it made. I'd make my supreme court down in Texas and we wouldn't have no killers getting off free If they were proven guilty then they would swing quickly, instead of writing' books and smiling' on T.V.

We'd put Florida on the right track, 'cause we'd take Miami back" [from who? Jews? Cubans? Haitians? Or will Hank go for the trifecta?].

"I said if the south would a won we would a had it made! Might even be better off!" [In a league where 70% of the players are Black, 100% of the owners are white, maybe this should be the Monday Night theme song.]

Buh bye, Bubba...

ADG

[slavdogg]

Originally Posted by tony286

The funny thing is the nazi were the right in germany not the liberals lol

not true, they were the nationalist, socialist progressive movement same as liberals

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Buh bye, Bubba...

ADG

If the south had won we'd be living in a place like Haiti now after all the slaves revolted
and killed everybody.

[Coup]

Thats what he deserves for bad mouthing der furher

[bushwacker]

Fucking hillbillys.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

If the south had won we'd be living in a place like Haiti now after all the slaves revolted
and killed everybody.

[Spunky]

It was time for a change anyways

[media]

Cartman: "Screw you guys! I'm going home!"

[SuckOnThis]

Originally Posted by slavdogg

not true, they were the nationalist, socialist progressive movement same as liberals

'Armed with emergency powers, Hitler continued with what can be described as his Rightist agenda. He moved against the Social Democrats and their trade unions. In May and June their headquarters were occupied. They were declared illegal and enemies of the people and the state. More Communists were arrested and imprisoned, along with socialists, liberals and trade unionists -- all those deemed by the Hitler regime as dangerous Leftists.'

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch16-2.htm

Sounds to me like Scott Walker.

[directfiesta]

Originally Posted by SuckOnThis

'Armed with emergency powers, Hitler continued with what can be described as his Rightist agenda. He moved against the Social Democrats and their trade unions. In May and June their headquarters were occupied. They were declared illegal and enemies of the people and the state. More Communists were arrested and imprisoned, along with socialists, liberals and trade unionists -- all those deemed by the Hitler regime as dangerous Leftists.'

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch16-2.htm

Sounds to me like Scott Walker.

sure does ... or the other one in Florida ... Rick Scott ...

[porno jew]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

The National Socialist Workers Party really sounds like a conservative movement to me. But they were hardly what I would call a solcialist party, but calling them the right in germany isn't exactly what I would call them either

if you don't think nazis were a right wing party you are a bigger idiot than i thought.