101.5 KNUE Country Radio » footbal http://knue.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:36:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 'Monday Night Football' Drops Hank Williams Jr. Theme for Good http://knue.com/hank-williams-jr-monday-night-football-jingle-never-coming-back/ http://knue.com/hank-williams-jr-monday-night-football-jingle-never-coming-back/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:07:22 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=52329 On Monday, after Hank Williams Jr. appeared on Fox News and compared President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner’s recent golf outing to “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu,” ESPN pulled Williams’ classic opening theme from that night’s airing of ‘Monday Night Football.’

‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night,’ which includes the catchphrase, “Are you ready for some football?,” had opened the show for nearly 20 years. At the time, the network declined to say whether the benching would be permanent or not, but now it seems it is.

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