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Report: ESPN Removes Hank Williams Jr. From 'Monday Night Football' Intro
Yahoo Sports ^ | Sep 8, 2020, | Jason Owens

Posted on 09/09/2020 1:38:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway

For the second time since 2011, ESPN is reportedly removing Hank Williams Jr. from its “Monday Night Football” intro.

This time, the network claims it’s not about Williams’ controversial points of view, according to Sports Business Journal.

Instead of Williams’ iconic “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night” that became the anthem for weekday football in 1989, ESPN will air a rendition of Little Richard’s “Rip It Up,” mashing the late artist’s vocals with instrumentation from Virginia-based band Butcher Brown, per the report

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bocephus; butcherbrown; coronavirus; countrymusic; covid19; espn; football; hankwilliamsjr; littlerichard; media; mnf; mondaynightfootball; music; ripitup; sports; tv; virginia
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1 posted on 09/09/2020 1:38:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Id they ever hear a certain song of his from 1988, their heads will explode.


2 posted on 09/09/2020 1:39:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Wait, ESPN still exists.../s


3 posted on 09/09/2020 1:42:30 AM PDT by cranked
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To: nickcarraway

A Country Boy Can Survive...


4 posted on 09/09/2020 1:43:10 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Probably replace him with that country singer that came out in favor of BLM


5 posted on 09/09/2020 1:47:19 AM PDT by GulfMan
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Why don’t they just play Red China’s national anthem? Oh, and FU espn.


6 posted on 09/09/2020 1:48:33 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: ArtDodger

Hank’s great song: IF THE SOUTH WOULD HAVE WON WE WOULD HAVE IT MADE.


7 posted on 09/09/2020 1:50:16 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: ArtDodger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk


8 posted on 09/09/2020 1:55:33 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: nickcarraway

WTH?

Reports have said he had already ditched them!


9 posted on 09/09/2020 2:09:52 AM PDT by nralife (Proud Boomer Rube)
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To: cranked

Political correctness is for brain dead fools!


10 posted on 09/09/2020 2:15:03 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: nickcarraway

I read the article. Yahoo sports is for stupid people.

They insinuated the “best” opinions to have. The “approved opinions.”

Go suck an egg, yahoo.


11 posted on 09/09/2020 2:16:12 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: ArtDodger; nickcarraway

Believe it is “If the South Would Have Won”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk&ab_channel=MrFloridaHonky


12 posted on 09/09/2020 2:24:07 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Oh, by all means go with a rap-based theme as the intro. Where N-words abound and they talk about their women so respectfully ... why, it’s just like a day in the life of the jerks on the field.


13 posted on 09/09/2020 2:30:37 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: nickcarraway

Isn’t this a few years old?


14 posted on 09/09/2020 2:41:17 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Monterrosa-24; ArtDodger

That’s the one.


15 posted on 09/09/2020 2:46:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rdl6989

He was removed one time, then put back.


16 posted on 09/09/2020 2:47:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There should have just kept the original instrumental intro music.


17 posted on 09/09/2020 2:48:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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The last time ESPN axed Williams was in 2011 after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

And there it is folks. He criticized "The One."

The Left does MUCH, MUCH worse to President Trump every single day (to include calling for his murder and the murder of his family), and nothing is ever done to them.

18 posted on 09/09/2020 3:22:59 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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That’s what I read last week- IMO espn is trying to save it street crew with a certain element of “society”.


19 posted on 09/09/2020 3:23:31 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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ESPN is Disney


20 posted on 09/09/2020 3:32:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric (On Don't be a statist!)
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