The rowdy friends are coming back.
Hank Williams Jr. will return to the opening of Monday Night Football with his song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night” and its catchphrase “Are you ready for some football?” ESPN had dropped the song six years ago after Wiliams made intemperate remarks about President Barack Obama.
The song had played for more than two decades on Monday Night Football and was closely identified with the show, and with football, for a generation of fans. But in 2011, in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, Williams faulted Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner, a Republican, for playing golf together. It would be like “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu,” he said, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
He also said that Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden were “the Three Stooges.”
Three days later, ESPN dropped the song, though Williams claimed the decision was his.
Now Williams says he is glad to be back. “I’m feeling at home and it’s a real good thing,” he told The Tennessean. “I hope there will be some happy people on Monday night again.” The new video with Williams for the show was taped in…
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