Posted on 10/03/2011 4:20:02 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Hank Williams Jr. won't be ready for some football this Monday night.
ESPN bounced Williams' trademark opening "Are you ready for some football?" after the longtime voice of Monday Night Football's theme song, after he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
"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," an ESPN spokesman wrote in an email to the Daily News.
"We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."
The award-winning country singer made the controversial comparison in an interview on Fox and Friends Monday morning in a bizarre chat about politics.
Williams began his TV appearance by slamming the GOP presidential candidates and saying House Majority Leader John Boehner's golf game with Obama was a huge mistake.
"You remember the golf game they had? That was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. That turned a lot of people off. It just didn't go over," he said.
When asked what about the game he didn't like, Williams Jr. pointed to the participants.
"Come on, come on, that would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," he said. "In the shape this country is in?"
When host Brian Kilmeade said he didn't understand the analogy, Williams Jr. replied "I'm glad you don't brother, because a lot of people do. They're the enemy... Obama! And Biden! Are you kidding? The Three Stooges."
It was not clear who the third stooge was in that analogy.
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yep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arbfhTSsSPI
That's basically a rip off of I Hate Myself for Loving You
Are you ready for some FUBO?
This is ol’ Hank ready to get the thing started.
We compared Zero to Hitler, yes we got it right,
And all the good ol’ boys back me up tonight.
I pretty much stopped watching NFL football when the Vikings stopped losing Super Bowls.
Look what’s is hapenning to Perry over an old fricking rock.
Even Herman Cain jumped on Perry’s rock problem. All of a sudden everyone is getting pretty sensitive. Is this another distraction from gun running and green political give aways?
This should not surprise anyone.
I saw a clip of the black girl on The View raking Barbara Walters over the coals for saying the name on the rock. It was astounding to see. She didn’t have a problem with Whoopi saying it but was greatly offended at Barbara.
NOT ONCE DID ANYONE MENTION THAT IT IS THE NAME OF A FLOWER.
Nobody’s watching tonight’s clunker of a game, anyway.
((((hugs and smiles!)))
I bet ESPN was looking to retire him anyway for cost savings. The song is silly but really made me cringe was Hank’s “customized” teaser lyrics in promotional commercials for games. Like this one I recall from the early 90s:
“The Raiders will feel the Lions’ angry bite...
It’s all coming down right here on Monday NIGHT.”
I would have suspended him for that.
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