The Hank Williams Jr. song that has opened "Monday Night Football" for 20 years was not part of the opening of this week's Indianapolis-Tampa Bay game after Williams made controversial comments about President Barack Obama.

 

Williams compared Obama to Adolf Hitler on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" show Monday morning.

ESPN, in a statement, said: "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."

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He was just parroting the republiCON/tea  party line... he's not smart enough to come up with what he said on his own!

There is also a thread in the Politics forum on this story - I felt like it was better there than in The Den.

C'mon, let's keep the politics off this board.

ain't gonna break my heart for him to be left out .

P.S. have you guys noticed the post have very civil and informed passed few days . more better this way . i give credit to those of you who do not rant about everything and everyone

Thanks C.Chuckles

NCCHUCK wrote:
ain't gonna break my heart for him to be left out .

P.S. have you guys noticed the post have very civil and informed passed few days . more better this way . i give credit to those of you who do not rant about everything and everyone

Thanks C.Chuckles

Hope he is left out wearing that bammer hat on TV

NCCHUCK wrote:
ain't gonna break my heart for him to be left out .

P.S. have you guys noticed the post have very civil and informed passed few days . more better this way . i give credit to those of you who do not rant about everything and everyone

Thanks C.Chuckles

Noticed and appreciated.  Thanks

NCCHUCK wrote:
ain't gonna break my heart for him to be left out .

P.S. have you guys noticed the post have very civil and informed passed few days . more better this way . i give credit to those of you who do not rant about everything and everyone

Thanks C.Chuckles

WTF r u talking about? I think you are a bleep! Yeah that was bad,..this is better!

I'm all for tradition, but Hank needs to go anyway.

The act has gotten old and tired

It's too bad that he used that as an analogy; unfortunately, it was used with Bush also.  I understand his point, however, and he should've worded it differently.

Hank is cool, the song was cool but dated...time for a change.

Don't talk about the POTUS ask the Dixie Chicks

Hank Sr. was a great songwriter. Hank Jr. is not good at much of anything.

Hitler?  Dick Cheney yeah. Obama, what are you smoking?

The "free speech" thing (that we've fought, bled, & died for) only exists for those on the far left who bash the GOP. And wasn't GWB called "Hitler" and many more nasty names by multiple celebrities (for 8 years) and the "main stream" media turned a blind eye.... Mike Tyson can talk about raping Palin on ESPN but that's all cool...
Herman Cain is solid and can get it done........this liberal POTUS is killing jobs, capitalism, free markets, and continually raping earnings/retirements of hard working Americans...
And why is it that NoBama continually states he inherited the economic mess but didn't inherit the strong military and years hard work by the intelligence community (including Guantanimo) that resulted in the UBL killing? SMH
The economic mess started in 2006 when the Dems took over the House/Senate.... It's time for a "Real Change!". Que no? ;)

BTW.... I loved the billboard (w/ Obama symbol) while driving into Albuquerque on Saturday which stated "WORST PRESIDENT EVER." Surprised to see that in Northern NM.

JARHEADAGGIE wrote: The "free speech" thing (that we've fought, bled, & died for) only exists for those on the far left who bash the GOP. And wasn't GWB called "Hitler" and many more nasty names by multiple celebrities (for 8 years) and the "main stream" media turned a blind eye.... Mike Tyson can talk about raping Palin on ESPN but that's all cool...
Herman Cain is solid and can get it done........this liberal POTUS is killing jobs, capitalism, free markets, and continually raping earnings/retirements of hard working Americans...
And why is it that NoBama continually states he inherited the economic mess but didn't inherit the strong military and years hard work by the intelligence community (including Guantanimo) that resulted in the UBL killing? SMH
The economic mess started in 2006 when the Dems took over the House/Senate.... It's time for a "Real Change!". Que no? ;)

BTW.... I loved the billboard (w/ Obama symbol) while driving into Albuquerque on Saturday which stated "WORST PRESIDENT EVER." Surprised to see that in Northern NM.

YES!

And Herman Cain for President. This guy gets it done.

Time to dump this thread - or merge to the thread in the politics forum.

Loboforlife wrote:

JARHEADAGGIE wrote: The "free speech" thing (that we've fought, bled, & died for) only exists for those on the far left who bash the GOP. And wasn't GWB called "Hitler" and many more nasty names by multiple celebrities (for 8 years) and the "main stream" media turned a blind eye.... Mike Tyson can talk about raping Palin on ESPN but that's all cool...
Herman Cain is solid and can get it done........this liberal POTUS is killing jobs, capitalism, free markets, and continually raping earnings/retirements of hard working Americans...
And why is it that NoBama continually states he inherited the economic mess but didn't inherit the strong military and years hard work by the intelligence community (including Guantanimo) that resulted in the UBL killing? SMH
The economic mess started in 2006 when the Dems took over the House/Senate.... It's time for a "Real Change!". Que no? ;)

BTW.... I loved the billboard (w/ Obama symbol) while driving into Albuquerque on Saturday which stated "WORST PRESIDENT EVER." Surprised to see that in Northern NM.

YES!

And Herman Cain for President. This guy gets it done.

DITTO, YES!!

AbqLobo wrote: Time to dump this thread - or merge to the thread in the politics forum.

Amen. This was a political thread waiting to happen and belongs on the politics board.

AbqLobo wrote: Time to dump this thread - or merge to the thread in the politics forum.

Abq - you need to try to recruit Harley, Jarhead, and LoboforLife to this political forum.  They will keep you busy for a while.