ESPN Pulls Hank Williams Jr's "Are You Ready For Some Football?" From MNF After Williams Compared Obama To Hitler

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ESPN Pulls Hank Williams Jr's "Are You Ready For Some Football?" From MNF After Williams Compared Obama To Hitler

By Stephen Douglas October 3, 2011 6:06 pm ET

By: Stephen Douglas | October 3, 2011 6:06 pm ET

All your rowdy friends are going to be confused as to what to do tonight. Earlier today, Hank Williams Jr. appeared on FOX and Friends where he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Surprisingly, ESPN wasn’t too excited to hear that. From the ESPN Media Zone:

“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.”

So, is this the end of an era? Will Hank Williams Jr go the way of Rush Limbaugh?

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Comments

http://twitter.com/#!/MikeNYC24 Mike NYC

Worse “analogy” — Hank Williams, Jr., or the defense of this one?

It’s close.
Geeezeus

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman’s lie makes a life like mine
Oh, the day we met I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway.

/Sr. > Jr.
elinwoods

Why does HW Jr. have to go around disparaging Hitler?
traderjack21

Hank Sr. > Hank III > Hank Jr.
ms621

The facial expressions in the video still are quite fascinating.
http://LexingtonFoodCritics.com Shatner, who blames the media for everything

ARE YOU READY FOR THE LUFTWAFFE!? SOME MONDAY NIGHT BLITZKRIEG! THERE’S SOME HITLERS UP IN HERE, CAUSE OBAMA AINT RIGHT. TURN UP THE GAS CHAMBERS CAUSE IT’S MONDAY NIGHT!
cracker jack

If there was ever a game to pull this from, it’s this one. I am not ready, and will not watch aminute of some football. All baseball tonight.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

Should have ended the interview with “Roll Damn Tide”
traderjack21

/waves to CJ
//prepares SC voodoo doll for tonight’s Yankee game
http://ipsofacto.blogs.com Sean Jean

God I fucking hate that stupid channel. Seriously, they have Hank Williams Jr on to talk about the GOP candidates? Dear god that was hard to watch.
traderjack21

ARE YOU READY FOR THE LUFTWAFFE!? SOME MONDAY NIGHT BLITZKRIEG! THERE’S SOME HITLERS UP IN HERE, CAUSE OBAMA AINT RIGHT. TURN UP THE GAS CHAMBERS CAUSE IT’S MONDAY NIGHT!

+ 1,000
http://mjand212theafiles.blogspot.com/ reggie_dunlap

About time-he is so 1980’s with that song!
traderjack21

speaking of past MNF substitute openings, bring back Tony! Toni! Tone!
http://www.sportsherniablog.com Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia)

Seems like a good dude.
squawkbox

God I fucking hate that stupid channel. Seriously, they have Hank Williams Jr on to talk about the GOP candidates? Dear god that was hard to watch.

As opposed to Sean Penn on MSNBC?

I watch ZERO news channels – they all suck.
traderjack21

and I thought I was crazy

/carl everett
http://twitter.com/MantisToboggan5 Mantis Toboggan

Boo on you youtube. I wanted to make a connection of Lou Holtz and his thoughts about Hitler, but alas.
http://twitter.com/Diesel25 Diesel

What the fuck qualifies redneck Hank Williams to appear on TV and talk politics?
traderjack21

What the fuck qualifies any entertainer to appear on TV and talk politics?

Fixed
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

What the fuck qualifies redneck Hank Williams to appear on TV and talk politics?

It’s just FOXNews, this holds no more value than asking celebrities who they think will win the Super Bowl (just that in those instances you don’t often hear Tom Brady compared with genocidal dictators)
squawkbox

Seems like a good dude.
albeit dumb as a fucking rock.

fixed
http://LexingtonFoodCritics.com Shatner, who blames the media for everything

Now is this the guy that appeared on that Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Viriginia doc or was that his kid?
traderjack21

(just that in those instances you don’t often hear Tom Brady compared with genocidal dictators

Aaron Rodgers is a genocidal dictator who should be eliminated

/SouvenirCity
traderjack21

Now is this the guy that appeared on that Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Viriginia doc or was that his kid?

What a whacked out movie.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

What Rodgers did to Denver yesterday could be viewed as a metaphor for genocide

/Belt