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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Football has become ‘anti white’.
I no longer watch, don’t care what they do.
I could have been worse, was he a ‘rodeo clown’ too...?
“I’d like to spit some beechnut in that dude’s eye and then show him my ‘ol .45”
Considering that i will NOT be watching any football for the foreseeable future, it really doesn’t matter.
Even so, it’s still sad.
What’s this ‘football’ thing you speak of?
Yea. I hate that song. Not sure about the replacement, but Rowdy Friends is just a crap song.
John Layne..On That train, and Grandma’s soda Biscuits
stream and mp3s are free at:
https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=2324&content=songs
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