Hank Williams Jr. - Are You Ready For Some Football?

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Hank Williams Jr. - Are You Ready For Some Football?

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ESPN bringing Hank Williams Jr. back to Monday Night Football

The Tennessean, USA Today Newwork
by Cindy Watts
6/5/2017

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ESPN is bringing Hank Williams Jr. -- and all his rowdy friends -- back into the Monday Night Football fold, six years after the sports network parted ways with the brash country rocker following controversial remarks involving then-President Barack Obama.

Williams' new version of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night," with his trademark opening: "Are you ready for some football?" will debut before a Sept. 11 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings.

“I think it’s a return to our past in that it’s such an iconic song associated with football,” said Stephanie Druley, ESPN’s senior vice president of events and studio production.

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ESPN dropped Williams from the program in 2011, following remarks Williams made after a golf outing between Obama and then-Republican House Speaker John Boehner.

Williams described the outing, famously dubbed "the golf summit" as "one of the biggest political mistakes ever."

As Williams then put it on Fox News' Fox & Friends: "It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu." When asked on Fox to explain his analogy, Williams said Obama and Vice President Biden are "the enemy." (bold and underline emphasis added)

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