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ESPN ‘Parts Ways’ With Hank Williams Jr. – ‘Monday Night Football’ Theme No More

ESPN has announced that it parted ways with Hank Williams Jr. after comments he made that involved a “Hitler” analogy earlier this week. The channel has permanently removed the “Monday Night Football” theme Williams performed for the show for over 20 years.

(Related: read and watch Williams’s original comments)
(Watch Glenn Beck’s passionate defense of Williams)

“We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr,” ESPN said on its website. “We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue.”

The decision may sound mutual, but Williams offered another perspective on his website.

“After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision,” he wrote. “By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.”

Williams’s Spokesman Kirt Webster said Williams made the decision Wednesday night, while the network said it informed Williams of the move Thursday morning.

Regardless of whose call it was, one of sports‘ and entertainment’s most visible partnerships is over. The song had been a “Monday Night Football” staple since 1989 and survived the game’s switch of networks from ABC to cable a few years ago.

It was originally yanked on Monday after Williams’s comments went viral.

The song is based on Williams’ hit “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight.” The lyrics were changed each week to reflect the night’s game.

ESPN will no longer have access to the music or words because Williams owns the publishing rights, the master recordings and the song. Williams, the son of country music icon Hank Williams, is known for his bombastic manner and easy opinions.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • dianna9490
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:20pm

    Come on FOOTBALL FANS – REFUSE TO WATCH THE FOOTBALL ON THEIR CHANNEL TILL HAND WILLIAMS JR RETURNS – HANK WILLIAMS JR IS MORE OF AN AMERICAN THAT BARRACK OBAMA – THIS IS CRAP AND PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH ALL THE CRAP!

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:53pm

      all 12 of you that will no longer watch ESPN will destroy this channel. Bwahahaha. ESPN is what it is. Upper management are all PC guys. But I can’t turn off ESPN. And neither will most men. I actually hated the Hank Williams bit anyway so I don’t mind that part of it, but the way it went down is disturbing. Bigger fish to fry than ESPN..

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:08pm

      Hey Fly,
      Rome had the coliseum to keep the people happy while the governement rape,robbed amd murdered.
      Today we have EPSN to say that most men won’t turn it off is as obvious as saying there are very few real men in the country.Do you think for a minute the men that founded this country would have turned a blind eye to this political correct(constitutionally wrong) movement. It a sad day when supposed men can be glamoured by twinkling lights on an idiot box to accept an agenda and policies that are destroying the nation. Because in not accepting it they will not get to see a bunch of guys in tight clothing and helmets try to move an oblong ball 100 yards.
      Or will not get to cheer for a bunch of guys in shorts trying to get a sphere into a basket at the other end of a court.
      LEMMIS AND SIMPLETONS

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    • obxned
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:08pm

      Without Hank and the theme song, it isn’t really Monday Night Football. This was about the last major network program I still watched, but no more. I will probably dump the cable and quit TV entirely.

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    • BmanIII
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:09pm

      @Old Glory
      You are probably right. Most die hard football fans WILL NOT not watch MNF. They will claim they won’t but they will.
      I KNOW I won‘t and haven’t watched ESPN for years – McNabb ring a bell.

      If you don‘t stand for something you won’t stand for anything (or however that goes)

      So Old Glory, if you “just can’t” turn off ESPN maybe you should go out and buy and brand spankin new GMC, and restock your home with General Electric appliances.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:12pm

      Hank Jr. sold us out, he should have never said he was sorry for what he said. Stand by your word, he should have told ESPN to shove it in their @ss.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:19pm

      I am big sports fan (GO RANGERS!), but I turned off my dish two months ago because of all the junk on TV polluting my family. I sometimes miss the sports but not the PC, liberal, progressive trash that comes with it. This is just another reason to turn it off and save the $90 a month. We have spend more time as a family and more time reading than ever before. I would encourage all to at least try this. The impact on my family has out shined all the games that I have missed. We should have done it years ago.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:23pm

      ahhh, I knew I would get jumped. All I am saying is ESPN is king now when it comes to sports. Something like this will have absolutly no effect on their ratings whatsoever. When they dumped Rush I was ticked and I said I would not watch ever again. Then I realized Rush could take care of himself and it exposed ESPN for what they are. Now Rush watches ESPN and holds no grudges but you can tell it still bothers him in a way.

      I do not watch the NFL anyway. Have not watched a MNF in years. For the most part, I have grown to hate the channel. I was there in 1980 when it started and was loyal. Now college football is another thing and when they carry most of the games, where ya gonna go?

      As I stated, bigger fish to fry than this stupid PC move ESPN made..

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    • W@nd@
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:31pm

      Do you really think that will happen?
      Guys giving up something to prove a point?
      Since they can only think of one thing at a time
      that has a snowballs chance in heLL of happening!
      Just saying…They don’t have that capability!
      Sorry Hank…but somehow i think he would understand!

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:34pm

      Ditto here. Shut down liberal ESPN with a boycotte

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:42pm

      It sure looks like many more than 12 people to me.

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:43pm

      I will not watch Monday Night Football.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:45pm

      What really pathetic is he statement that, “You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech…“ Like many of the ”Constitution loving” Tea Party, he doesn’t quite get the concept of the First Amendment which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

      In other words, the government isn’t allowed to limit your speech. An employeer? Sure they can, they do it all the time. Can you go insult your company to customers and expect to keep your job based on First Amendment protection? Heck no. The First Amendment doesn’t apply.

      Herman Cain and FOX think a community can decide whether or not a mosque is built, because they also don’t understand the First Amendment. And of course, most here believe that the Tea Party can peacefully assemble, but that nobody else can. In Herman Cain’s words, that would be “unAmerican” even though the Constitution specifically provided that right.

      I think Hank Jr. and Cain should get a handle on the First Amendment before they start talking about it again.

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:51pm

      @ John: it could be 50k boycotters and ESPN will not bat an eye. Just like the DWTS this year and the Bono chick who is now a man thing. I have not allowed my family to watch it but ABC could not care less. Anyone that wants to turn it off, go for it. You will be a better person for it, no doubt. But most of us men “who can only think of one thing at a time” will simply go on and look for bigger battles.

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    • Wayne
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:02pm

      I agree 100%, some people can say anything about anyone, but to do that you have to be a member of the ACLU or be Al sharpton or Jesse jackson.

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    • robert
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:17pm

      This is not a good move on ESPN’s part. It won’t destroy their channel, but it will cost them viewers.

      I’ve always tuned then out. I like to participate in sports, but it’s a ho hum for me to watch any of it.

      If more people were like me, ESPN wouldn’t have enough viewers to justify their existence.

      These sports games are no more than opiates for the masses. It’s the Roman chariot races all over again, along with the public spectacles at the coliseum.

      Many of us are too active to want to vegetate in front of the boob tube any way.

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    • kfalcon22000
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:30pm

      Does anyone else remember years ago when they stopped doing Hank’s opening for MNF and had Bon Jovi do the opening instead? The huge amount of phone calls that ABC received forced them to bring him back immediately the following week.

      There is no reason to think that we fans could not do that again. Its all about money. If the fans threaten their profits, they will cave.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:35pm

      @JZS

      It would help you appear more objective if you could, just once in a while, find a position to take that didn’t 100% support the socialists.

      I do fully understand that Hank was wrong about the 1st Amendment, and that was my first thought when I heard his quote. That said, he made an analogy, he did not call anybody anything as CNN, and many huffy puffy on the left like to think.

      CNN has every right to send him packing, with or without reason.

      I‘m still waiting to see however if you’ll ever, and I mean ever, take a position contrary to Obama that is supported by the “tea party”. The very tea party you so obviously loathe, to the point that you have to invent lies out of whole cloth about them in order to denigrate them.

      Men of reason who are objective tow no party line, and engage in independent thought, sometimes even coming into conflict with people whose views he generally shares. So far I’ve not seen that from you. Until I do, I can’t really take you seriously.

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    • AmericanWarrior
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:47pm

      Make that “13” of us… I won‘t watch espee’n anymore either… If you don’t stand up for anything, what damn good are you..??.. You remind me of Jell-o… jus sayin…

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:47pm

      How about a Tuesday night football channel.

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    • The Truth Will Set You Free
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Country boys can survive! Even when your song gets ranked!

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    • TEIN
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Is JZS a plant from some astroturfed .org?? Does he ever get dizzy from his own spin??
      “..In other words, the government isn’t allowed to limit your speech. An employeer?..”
      Ummm Hank wasn’t employed by ESPN…. I am sure there was a contract for use of Hanks material and ESPN probably had in the contract that they or Hank could terminate at will…but to have retributive actions because of a opinionated statement that had no direct bearing on that company…spin it how you like JZS..but it is spin with little a bit of setting up bad premises…By your statement, I guess as employer I can fire any person if they reflect some opposite image of my business…are you to suggest that if I hired an alternate lifestyle person, and that person went to a rally on their own time, on a weekend, expressed opinion of their life style or political position (Bush is Hitl3r!!!), I can take that opinion, and fire them?? Wonder how that turd would float…but if that is what the amendment means..???….bad premise and I would not fire the person because that person was not personally attacking me or my business just like Hank was in no way reflecting his opinion towards ESPN….but ESPN made it clear their opinions are reflected at Hank..and I am not even a Hank fan!!!

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    • mils
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Are you kidding?…Americans could not possibly care “right or wrong”…only what makes them feel good at the moment…

      No one will even notice JR is gone as long as the game goes on. Americans are in for a terrible biotch slap in this world.

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:57pm

      @ON THE BAYOU

      …That’s exactly right. I was gonna say, ‘too bad you apologized so quickly, Hank ‘ole buddy. Looks like they intended to beat you to the punch and just immediately stab you in the back!’
      But here’s the thing: everyone in America is now giving ESPN the hairy eyeball. ESPN was WRONG! This is a 1st Amendment victory no matter how it’s looked at! The liberal marxist media in this country needs to be taken out, and this is another solid step toward that goal!

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Fly Old Glory, you’re a moron. ESPN = ABC = DISNEY. They’re huge. They’re one of the major liberal networks.

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    • lionslayer44
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:31pm

      my bird dog and i both lift our legs to you ESPN. BE PREPARED COLLECT FOOD, WATER (FILTERS), AMMO!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:38pm

      Maybe ESPN/DISNEY “the family values network” will hire their HERO the Convicted Rapist

      Mike Tyson he can sing… I hear he did a lot of that in prison

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    • Delta_River_Folk
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:46pm

      I haven’t watched Monday or Sunday in years. Football (most major sports) sends the wrong message to young people. For the average person life is not that easy, and you have to work hard. When the hopeful kids find that out the hardway they give up and wait on the entitlements.

      Love Hank!!!!

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:48pm

      Not gonna happen. Hank‘s decided he’s not interested in working there anymore.

      I’d normally hope to hear the song and Hank move to the other primetime game, but that’s on NBC. So, well, you know…

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:57pm

      GhostOfJefferson, you don’t have a problem with what Hank said. That’s fine. But ESPN believed that it would be a worse financial decision for them to retain the association with Hank that let him go. There no “lefty” reasoning there, it’s about viewership, advertisers and ultimately profit.

      Now, I believe in capitalism, which this is a perfect example of. If you and the Tea Party don’t believe in capitalism, and believe ESPN should make decisions based on appeasing you instead of what makes them the most money, then I can hardly take you seriously. Nor is citing the First Amendment “towing the party line.”

      There is something to your post though, I admit. Although I do occasionally agree with whatever idea is expressed in the threads (although rarely, this is about as far right as any website), I tend to post more when I think there’s a legitimate case on the other side of the coin.

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    • ihveit
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:11pm

      although i was not a big fan of williams what espn has done is totally unfair.. they dont want free speach either.. so until i hear the is back good bye monday night football.. HELL unless its the saints or LSU i will not be watching ANY OF THEIR SPORTS AGAIN..

      i am sick of this crap…. obama may not be a hitler but he damn sure is a marxist or worse AND YOU CAN TELL HIM THAT…
      will

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:18pm

      @ Dr. Funk: Thank you for your wonderful comments. What is it with you ppl and the name calling? Can you not argue a point without sinking to the level of the left. Where did I say they were not huge? Explain your stupid response. I don’t know how to respond to you because all you did was insult and babble. I will be waiting and we will go from there.

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:40pm

      I can’t remember the last time I watched a sports program so not a problem for me. I do wish all this PC malarky would stop. If someone asks you a question, tell them what you think. If they don‘t like it they shouldn’t have asked!

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    • ILUVJESUS
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Hank ain’t-a-commin’ back! Obama like Hitler? Well…..no…he’s worse!
      God bless Bocefess.

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    • blkold7
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:12pm

      I stopped with The NFL when they screwed with Rush. I seen The 70% Racist of The Players Union & decided from then on I would only watch The SEC. But I did catch the Opening of Hank for Monday Night just to see him perform. But now I have no more need to turn my TV on for The Media DIED in 2008. And for those who think I don’t know, Rush still watches The Steelers & what he does he does, but for me, I gave up & I started watching in 1967, but no longer

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    • 22deuce
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:39pm

      i will not watch ESPN any more for anything it will hurt but freedom of speech means more than football or nascar bye bye ESPN till hank jr is back im gone im one of his people

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:58pm

      RIght on Hank, DUMP STUPID ESPN, another lame stream media.

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:37pm

      What constitution do you all support?
      This is a private company that parted ways
      with somebody who they no longer wanted to
      be associated with. Isn’t that capitalism?
      If you dont like it then don’t watch. Again
      capitalism at work.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:52pm

      TEIN, I’m not a Hank fan either. Thanks for your thoughtful response. Let me try again. Let’s say you are the CEO of Nike. You hire Tiger Woods. Why? You hire him because he’s successful, he wins, he’s a good looking guy, he’s a total professional. You hire him because you want to associate your brand with him. You want this person, who everyone admires and loves and watches associated with your brand, in this case Niki. That’s marketing, you want this person associated with Nike in the minds of people who buy your products. And that is what Tiger Woods sells: that image of him as the ultimate, driven professional golfer. He makes money playing golf, but what he sells to advertisers is his IMAGE, something Nike wants to pay him for.

      But then stories come out about him, he lies, and, you know the rest. His image, the thing that Nike was buying, has turned from a very positive thing, to a very negative thing. His image has lost value – it now has negative value, worthless. So Nike drops him.

      You have trouble seeing the same thing with Hank Jr’s comments because you agree with him politically. I’m sure there are people that think Tiger was way cool for cheating on his wife with waitresses, but Niki didn’t most of their customers did. ESPN viewed Hank the way Niki viewed Tiger. So they dropped him. Follow the money.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:18pm

      Thank the good Lord he has all the master tapes and rights.
      It means he did not sell his soul!
      smart.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:29pm

      DOCROW- I wish more people would get rid of television. When years go by without it, it is funny when you are asked about shows you haven’t even heard of..or products!
      My kids ask for cute stuff for Christmas because they never see commercials. They have no clue to the“ importance” of the crap they see in the toy aisles.
      but, boys like cars trucks,swords, guns and rope!
      Girls- princesses, pink and pink and pink!
      No zhu zhu pets or Bratz (sk@nks)

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:38pm

      @ JZS who Posted: “What really pathetic is he statement that, “You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech…“ In other words, the government isn’t allowed to limit your speech. An employeer? Sure they can, they do it all the time. Can you go insult your company to customers and expect to keep your job based on First Amendment protection? Heck no. The First Amendment doesn’t apply.”

      You are wrong, you idiot liberal troll. The First Amendment ALWAYS applies, though it may not for much longer, with people like you around willing to throw it under the bus in the name of political correctness. One, he did not express this opinion on his employer’s time or their property. He expressed a political opinion in a public forum, which, last time I looked, is protected by the First Amendment. Two, It is PC CRAP like this that is threatening everybody’s liberties, including YOURS. What if your employer read one of your posts here and decided to FIRE your liberal a$$ because he didn’t like your opinion? I heard some twit on NPR breathlessly announcing that HW Jr. was fired for “comparing Obama to Hitler”. While I happen to think that would be a valid comparison, that is NOT what HWJ said. What he SAID was, John Boehner and Obama playing golf together was like Hitler and Benjamin Netanayhu playing golf. It was an analogy of how they are far apart in viewpoints and politics, which is quite different from “comparing to Hitler”.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:21pm

      Teaparty-grammy, I must have really offended you personally for you to call me all those names. I’m sorry, I mean no offense, I’m just giving my point of view. I bet you have been a great mother and are a great grandmother too.

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    • waggie
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:21pm

      Sorry, but in my opinion Williams is a bit of a fruitcake. Probably a drunk fruitcake at that.

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    • dandelion8002
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 1:50am

      Everybody buy another Hank Williams Jr. song in order to send a message to those who are trying to turn us all into a bunch of PC ninnies. Everyone with 1/2 a brain knows Hank was making an analogy, and by that analogy he meant that the Democrats and Republicans are all on the same side…which is not the side of the American people.

      I just bought yet another Hank Williams song….and it was great to have ESPN as an excuse. How about “America Will Survive”?

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 10:03am

      FlyOldGlory24/7365 ..
      watch ESPN that your prerogative as it was ESPNs to fire Hank Jr…

      PC not so much…

      ESPN/DISNEY permitted a “convicted rapist” Mike Tyson to air his rape fantasy in a 20 minute rant regarding Sarah Palin a VP candidate .. LIVE on the air while ESPN hosts laughed in the background
      I guess thats OK and PC in your edition of the “MAN BOOK” manual? All good all PC? Really?
      Just boys being boys etc; etc;

      Subjective and prejudiced is more ESPN/DISNEYS standard of late and beyond rational

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    • dnnyshdy
      Posted on October 7, 2011 at 11:55pm

      What’s really sad is people believe he called Obama,Hitler.HE DIDN”T.Watch the video.

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    • webpreacher
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 7:55am

      That is just what needs to happen, Hank has his 1rst Amendmant right just like ALL of America, and ESPN apparently does not agree with the 1rst Amendmant. So, I say we ALL join in to Boycott Monday Night Football.
      I will call on ALL Amercan Football fans, to “part ways” with ESPN, and MNF, its been good, but nice knowing ya, see ya MNF and ESPN…bye now !
      So go ahead and spread the message, To Boycott, MNF & ESPN, lets see how that like that !

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Sorry tea party gramma, but you apparently haven’t attended middle school.

      “You are wrong, you idiot liberal troll. The First Amendment ALWAYS applies”

      Jesus. Let me explain this to you and everyone else. The 1st Amendment doesn‘t apply when the government isn’t involved. If you represent a private corporation and you say something stupid to millions of people then they have every right to fire you. If obama had him imprisoned, now THAT would be violating his rights. Hank has the “right” to say it, but ESPN has the “right” to can him. Like others have said, thats called “capitalism”. Its sad that you don’t even comprehend the constitution on a 13 year olds level.

      If you want to say you’re defending the Constitution, I don’t know, maybe you should understand it first. You want to be mean, and insult people for being stupid,,, but you aren’t looking too bright here… you should probably shut up.

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 2:33pm

      I have a good example for your pea brain granny. Remember when the Dixie chicks said some bad stuff about bush? Remember how all those country stations refused to play their music? Would you say that the Dixie chicks first amendment rights were violated? Of course not.

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  • ohcommish
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:20pm

    It is too bad the media thinks they can control what we think. What Hank said is nothing not already thought and said. ESPN and it’s sponsors have lost my family as viewers. As the media continues to try and control our speech and lives, we have to resist in any way we can.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:47pm

      Did you know that you can block channels on Dish – done – no more Espn. Me personally am getting fed up with PC and people trying to block free speech. Except profanity anyone should be able to say what they please and suffer the publics will. I don’t watch Whoppie, Baldwin and now M. Freeman – thats what free speech is all about.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:05pm

      What Hank said was right and true. Thanks Hank for sticking to your guns. I‘d rather listen to the song it’s original version anyway. Was one of the best music video’s of all time.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Hank said nothing wrong nor did he call anybody anything bad. The thing is however that his 1st Amendment rights were in no way infringed upon. CNN was his employer (or at least, he was a contractor for them for the song/appearances). They have every right to disassociate themselves with him for any reason, or even no reason whatsoever. No rights were infringed in this event. ‘Tis much ado about nothing, by both sides, in my estimation.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:48pm

      The rule is this: Liberals, Marxists and racebaiters like Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton can compare Tea Partiers and anybody else who disagrees with them to Hitler, call them terrorists, etc., and that is acceptable, but anybody who DARES even HINT at being critical of the Great Eared one in the White House must DIE.

      All that crap from JZS and others about “employers have a right to control employee speech” and “you can‘t expect to insult your employers’ customers and keep your job” is just an attempt to muddy the waters. Hank Jr. wasn’t AT work when he made those remarks, nor did he make them about a “customer”. He was speaking about two public figures–too ELECTED officials, whom we USED to have a right to criticize publicly, before the politically correct crowd took over.

      He made his remarks on his own time in a public forum, and that is NONE of his “employers’” business, thank you very much, nor is it their place to attempt to CENSOR what he says. And yes, that IS a violation of the First Amendment, whether the liberal idiots think so, or not.

      I’m not a huge HWJ fan — it is the principle of the thing I find objectionable. If Obama and Friends have their way, nobody will have the right to say nothin’ — so keep it up, you Marxist “useful idiots” — defend the creeping erosion of our Constitutional rights until one day we wake up and don’t have any–which will not be long, if ODUMBER and idiots like JZS have their way.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

    Hank Jr.’s statement has been blown way out of proportion and the fake outrage is laughable. Here we go with the left’s double standard. They just can’t handle the truth, so they act just like the whiny childish antics of a two year old. Hank Jr. probably is relieved he doesn’t have to deal with these people any longer. ESPN = Every Smart Persons Nightmare.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:56pm

      No, the left realizes that the Obama/Hitler analogy is spot on, they are 2 peas in a pod, even though Williams wasn’t comparing obama to hitler, it was just to close for comfort for the left. The left constantly called Bush Hitler, the right didn’t care, it was a laughable comparison, the 2 had nothing in common, Obama on the other hand.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:49pm

      @ SWAMPY, who Posted: “No, the left realizes that the Obama/Hitler analogy is spot on, they are 2 peas in a pod, even though Williams wasn’t comparing Obama to Hitler, it was just too close for comfort for the left. The left constantly called Bush Hitler, the right didn’t care, it was a laughable comparison, the 2 had nothing in common, Obama on the other hand . . . ”

      I think you have hit the nail on the head, Cofemale. In fact, there are MANY disturbing similarities between Hitler and Obama, including Obama’s increasingly blatant hatred of Israel and embracing of radical Islam. (If you recall, the radical Islamists were ALL in bed with Hitler during WWII, in hopes of getting the opportunity to kill some Jews.) And even though Hank Jr. did NOT say Obama was like Hitler, even mentioning Hitler in the same breath as Obama was WAY too close to the truth for comfort for Obama and his minions in the press, so of course they had to spin a lie as an excuse to attack and discredit, which is what they DO, when somebody has the NERVE to speak the truth about them and their dreams of world conquest, or even when somebody comes too CLOSE to speaking the truth about them.

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

    They should just leave that long hair country boy alone. Goodbye ESPN !

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:34pm

      Yup! They might be sorry to come down on Williams for something so tame after so many really hateful, rude and outright slander is said daily on TV. How about telling the T-Party to go to Hell? Now, this slander against many of us. How about that Vick guy and what he did to little dogs while training his big dogs for fighting? This is truly sick.
      This was an analogy and not something against Obama. ESPN you are the ones who can go to………

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  • Grace1798
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:17pm

    Well then ESPN you just made Hank Williams Jr. an icon and made yourselves look like Socialist/Marxist cheerleaders. I just blocked your station from my network. Goood bye now. :)

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:17pm

    ESPN is bye bye for me too. Bunch of wussies…Dennis Miller said it was a ‘fiscal’ decision. NIce excuse. I’ll see the scores on the web the next day.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:54pm

      So, if I take Dennis Miller’s meaning, then just about ANYTHING can be justified in the name of protecting profits and making money, right? I guess it’s getting pretty UNPROFITABLE for people like Obama for the rest of us to have Constitutional rights, so they are working hard to change that.

      And the Leftist idiots say WE’RE all about protecting the rights of the rich? That really IS rich, isn’t it!

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  • stogieguy7
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:17pm

    ESPN is now comprised of a bunch of PC-addled metrosexual pansies! And, since when are we governed by a dictatorship where it’s a crime to say ANYTHING that can be taken as an offense to the presidency? Under Barack Haile Selassie Hussein Obama II, this country has rapidly turned into Venezuela. The media is in cahoots with this leftist strongman and they’re controlling the distribution of information and opinion to the extent that they can. Say something negative about Bush and you’re expressing your God-given 1st Amendment rights (Danny DeVito, etc.); say something negative about Dear Leader and you’re a hate-filled racist who cannot be tolerated and who needs to be suppressed. Not to mention that Hank‘s comment wasn’t even that bad, he was chastising both sides.

    It is scary and my only question is: how much more will we take before we get off of our butts and do something about it? Because we’re losing our great country here. This is merely a symptom of that.

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  • Sorocialism
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:17pm

    College Ball on my local radio and TV stations are plenty enough for me. Go Matadors!

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:16pm

    Rush and now Hank Jr run out of the NFL for being bigots- what a good day this is turning out to be.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:51pm

      Neither man made bigoted remarks but, when the left’s only defense is racism, I can understand where you’re coming from.

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:35pm

      gonzo-use your dictionary -bigotry is not just about race

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    • biggreenboo
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:33pm

      Gonzo is still correct… neither was a bigoted remark!

      Gonzo 1
      Steelhead 0

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:03pm

      Big- your bias is showing just open your word book it explains what words mean

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    • bigfoot1
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:32pm

      What Rush said about McNabb was not racial or bigoted it was just factual and has shown over the past few years that Rush made an astute comment since McNabb has turned out not to be a great quarterback. I dang sure cant see where Hank said anything bad about Obama other than perhaps he should’ve referred to Mao or Joseph Stalin in lieu of using Hitler in his comparison.

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    • John Henry
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:47pm

      I fear steelhead needs to be referred to as rusthead. He has the soft mushy thinking process to match his lack of knowledge of the “Book”. May all liberal giant thinkers go the way of the great blue goose.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:54pm

      @ BIGFOOT1 who Posted: “What Rush said about McNabb was not racial or bigoted it was just factual and has shown over the past few years that Rush made an astute comment since McNabb has turned out not to be a great quarterback. I dang sure cant see where Hank said anything bad about Obama other than perhaps he should’ve referred to Mao or Joseph Stalin in lieu of using Hitler in his comparison.”

      Yeah, Obama and his chums are all such great admirers of Mao, if Hank Jr. had said “Mao” instead of “Hitler”, they’d probably nominate him for the Presidential Freedom Medal as a Great American.

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  • solaveritas
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:16pm

    Everyone, be sure to write ESPN and tell them you can‘t respect stupidity and won’t be watching MNF anymore.
    It is stupid to conclude that Hank was comparing B.O. to Hitler. He only coined an “example of opposites” to make a point.
    Football watchers don’t have a lot of Harvard degrees, but they know the difference between unsportsmanlike conduct and too many men on the field!!
    AND “football types” aren’t whining sissies anyway! So, change the MNF logo to PINK, why don’t you!
    Goodbye MNF!!

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    • bigbro
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:06pm

      Don’t stop at the station, call the sponsers

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:33pm

      Yeah, isn’t it amazing how the lamestream media are all earnestly proclaiming that (gasp) Hank Williiams Jr. actually compared Obama to HITLER! Well, no, he didn’t–though he would certainly not be WRONG if he did! But, as you said, he was making a point about what opposites Obama and Boehner are, and that it was peculiar to see them playing golf together. A lot of us found that little golf date “odd”.

      But Lord knows, the Lamestream Media never let a little thing like the TRUTH get in the way of a good story! ESPECIALLY if it is a story that allows them to persecute somebody they deem politically incorrect. These people should be EMBARRASSED to call themselves “news” people or “journalists”, when they have become nothing more than glorified propaganda organs for ODUMBER and his Marxist agenda.

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  • opaque blinders
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Typical Morons, they should keep Hank and put him in the booth and replace Jon Gruden. That guy is the Bill Walton of football announcers. He drives me insane. He’s as bad as Madden ever was.

    Keep Hank!!!!!!
    Anyone ready for Hank and Sunday Night Football!!!!! lol

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    • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:27pm

      noone is as bad as Madden. He was the worst and one of the main reasons I stopped watching MNF in the 1st place…

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:44pm

      Nope! Not ready for Sunday night football without Hank Williams. ESPN, go fly a kite, you no goods.

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  • jaybo1970
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:13pm

    This is unbelievable….I hope the ratings for ESPN drop like a rock now

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Easy call for me~~~ good bye MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. You haven’t been the same since Howard and Dandy Don!

    “TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY’S OVER….”

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  • randy
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:13pm

    FIne….. I just parted ways with ESPN
    Oh wait. I have not watched the over paid cry babies on Monday night football in years!
    High school football games in person are a heck of a lot more fun.

    Wonder who will kick off the start of the game now? Maybe Frances Fox Pivens, Rosanne,
    Moochelle?

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:12pm

    Disney=ABC=Espn
    Disney CEO appointed by Obama to the President’s Export Council

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  • LiberalMarine
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:12pm

    Thank god, it wasn’t as much about the comparisons he made (which were ridiculous) as much as it was the fact that that song and opening was completely stupid.

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    • Sorocialism
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:19pm

      It was almost as bad as faking military service to win an argument.

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    • randy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Oh come on, we all know you don’t believe in god you putz.
      And again, I doubt you were ever or are a MARINE..
      Anyone like you and Lesbian packing hollow points that feel the need to inform us what you are
      all about, are just doing it to draw attention to yourselves. Personally I don’t give a crap if you are liberal, a Marine, (highly doubt) or a girl scout..(more likely)

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    • LiberalMarine
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:29pm

      First, I didn’t fake anything. I have also never used my military service to win an argument.

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    • LiberalMarine
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:31pm

      @ randy

      No, I don’t believe in God. It’s a figure of speech.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Proof positive we have the 10% as well as the civilian world! I hope for your sake the Corps doesn’t start to think by posting your pic in dress blues and identifying yourself as a Liberal Marine” does not constitute representing the Marine Corps! Of course you can just have fun in a gay porn video in bits and pieces……

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    • Turks
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:26pm

      How many times have you surrendered “Liberal(Coward) Marine?

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    • neocon1
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:20pm

      More like REMF gaymarine

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  • westfayetteville
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:12pm

    Maybe ESPN can get a Rapper to do Monday night football, they only talk about killing cops and are invited to the White House

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

      BOGUS issue. BOGUS Issue. BOGUS Issue. ABC Is such a shrill. Bunch of DIP WADS. He wasn’t calling anyone anything. He was only saying the President and The House Speaker playing golf was like a Jew and a Nazi golfing together. How political correctness has gotten outta control around here.
      One has to hole up and not go out anymore for fear of opening mouth and placing foot into it. Stop this world I want off.

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:19pm

      ESPN ABC are they the same company as before?

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    • Sorocialism
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Lady Caca will do it.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:11pm

    When will we see the next interview with Michael Vick? Seems to me more felons are filling the NFL rosters lately!!! I understood your truth on both ways it has been interpretted Hank!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:11pm

    I will be departing ways with ESPN. Commies.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:10pm

    This has to be the stupidest act I’ve seen a corporation make, PR wise, in a long time. Even simpletons understand analogies. Hell, even a very small percentage of Obama have a vague awareness of analogies.

    Are the folks who run CNN really this blindingly stupid?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:18pm

      “Obama” is supposed to be “Obama supporters.”

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    • Coonrapids
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Why do you hate our black president you are a race bater. Spookofjefferson

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:41pm

      @Coon

      You may not be aware, but people behind the scenes remove posts that are derogoratory and inflammatory. You’re just sore because somebody called you our for your overt racist, and probably shills from the left, posts. Get over it, guy.

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    • biggreenboo
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:48pm

      I hate our 1/2 black president… but not because he’s 1/2 black.
      What’s your point…. fool.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:28pm

      GRETCHEN CARLSON: “You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world (Hitler) to describe, I think, the President.

      HANK WILLIAMS JR.: “Well, that is true…that is true. But I’m telling it like it is.”

      That is not an analogy…

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:46pm

      It is inconceivable to me that it wasn’t the NFL that demanded Hank Williams Jr.’s firing. The NFL is extremely image conscious and Williams was actually on FOX & Friends plugging Monday Night Football. He was even introduced by Kilmeade as ‘the voice of Monday Night Football for over twenty years.” Had Williams made the offensive remarks at one of his own concerts it would have been a different story. But here he was too closely associated with the NFL and MNF. ESPN (and the NFL) had every right to fire him.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:01pm

      Maybe not, but they are apparently so terrified of offending the Great Eared One that they stupidly rush to his defense even when no offense was given. They have just revealed themselves for the liberal a$$-kissing toadies they really are. Pathetic, really

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:08pm

    Could care less about ESPN, but I do care how far PC has gotten and how they are trying to shut down free speech. A lot.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:06pm

      And as for those babbling about how this is “capitalism at its finest”, and that they are only protecting their “market” by distancing themselves from Hank Jr., they ARE aware, are they not, that the hard-core left-wingers are actually only a small PERCENTAGE of this country’s people? So if this is their idea of “capatalism”, well, they’re not very good at it, or running the numbers, are they! The leftie-tards just make a lot of noise and have insinuated themselves into highly visible positions (like Lamestream Media reporters) that make it SEEM as if they are the majority. So jumping into bed with the left-wingers is not a real SMART move, marketing-wise. If it is mass market they are after, boy, did they just shoot themselves in the foot, or WHAT?

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 8, 2011 at 2:03pm

      granny, read a book. ask someone who knows and understands how the constitution actually works.

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  • nannyatnannydotgov
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:07pm

    That’s cool ESPN. I cancelled you too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • PS90shooter
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:07pm

    What a bunch of PC morons. MNF has sucked since it moved over so it’s just another reason not to watch.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:12pm

      It‘s not ESPN it’s the NFL and ABC that made this call. I’m washing my hands of both and the best part is it will give me at least 8-10 hours of more constructive time with my wife and kids. I’m thinking fall bassing this sunday, maybe an evening grilling and horseshoe competetion.

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    • Sorocialism
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:21pm

      @Smith, thats “Courageous” cheers to you.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:05pm

    .
    Well I just fired ESPN, and no more Pro Football for me. Just a bunch of racist’s……..

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 1:15pm

      Yep..I have been wartching less of football lately because there are less and less white people on the field and I am not going to give time and money to anti-white racists.

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  • DonnaA
    Posted on October 6, 2011 at 12:04pm

    ESPN is off my watch list!

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:31pm

      There’s one thing I have to say about ESPN in all this: Flaccid penis and numb nuts.

      OK, that’s two things (or three).

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Let me add one more…“Obamatard LSM Kiss Azz”
      Put ESPN on Parental Control and forget Password…

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