ESPN fires Hank Williams Jr
 

Let me ask you Hank,"Why do you drink, why do you roll smoke, why must you live out the songs that you wrote." They can't take your 5'th admendment rights, but they can take a man's paycheck away, can't they.

I've been hearing that song since the 5th grade, that's 1984 when the USFL was still around. It's time to move on despite his comments.
Kid Rock would be a nice change.

Never liked it...but if they replace it with another musical performance, I won't like that one, either.

Well...on 2nd thought...they could replace him with this guy and it wouldn't suck for me...

Goes to show you when you pop off your mouth and your a celebrity they will fire you. Something tells me ESPN was going to fire him and he quit just so their hands didn't get dirty

I hope Faith Hill gets fired too.

"Um, right. Hank apologized on Tuesday in the hopes of keeping the only thing that has kept him relevant for the last 25 years. And now that he’s being pushed, he’s trying to make it look like he jumped.

The sad part is that plenty of people will believe that Hank wasn’t fired, and that he actually did quit."

Wether what Hank said was right or wrong, that's for each of us to decide for ourselves, however, I think Hank Junior needs to go over to NBC and kick the **** out of Mike Florio just for being the ass that he is.

27 years of cashing in is not to shabby. He probably has one of the longest NFL contracts. I personally never like him but his dad that's another story...

Jambalaya on the Bayou - Hank Williams - YouTube

No great loss!!

Am I the only one who thinks ESPN overreacted on this one? It's not the worst thing I've heard people say about the Prez. I'll keep my opinions on him to myself, to save this thread from turning into a political sh*t storm, but for them to fire him for some dumb comment that most of the nation is already thinking is asinine. Just my opinion though.

Where was the outrage when Bush was compared to Hitler?

I don't/didn't like George W Bush; and I really don't care for Hank Williams Jr. either, but it sure is hypocritical on ESPN part but this is typical of those people.

Die Medien sind liberal

In this divorce who gets Faith Hill ???

This is great news in my opinion... His part was my least favorite of the MNF experience, at least since they replaced the annoying and clueless Kornheiser with Gruden.

I don't know if they need another musical act to open the game - I'd be fine with something like the Frank Gifford historical intro into the game and just cut to - TAN TAN TAN TAAAAN - and the game would start. http://smileys.on-my-web.com/reposit.../happy-038.gif

Alternatively, Tom Petty would be cool like Strato mentioned, but he might seem too phlegmatic for the type of production the MNF is and his very liberal views on f.e. marijuana usage would probably be a hindrance as well.

Sad to see someone get fired for freedom of speech, to bad it couldnt have been the three stooges! ( Obama, Pelosi,and reed) What Hank jr. said was his opinion, at least he is not out there lying about other people to try to make himself look better. If you can't run on your own record, Your only recourse is to make other people look bad with a continuous avalanche of lies. Go ahead and tell us what good you have done? the economy? yeah right! Employments up uh? yeah right. You killed Bin Laden? Yeah sure! You pulled the trigger! Yeah right. Lowered the national debt? Maybe if you had done that, we would not have the credit rating of a third world country. Really? we lost our AAA credit rating? Oh? Congress did all that? What about the congress that had control prior to this year? You know? the democrat controlled congress? are they getting blame for the two previous years of this debt and economy? all these problems didn't start this year with this congress?
One more thing, if you believe in wealth redistribution, you can no longer dream the american dream, you know, the one where you dream of being successful and maybe one day making it rich! If you believe in wealth redistibution you fall into two categories, politicians who want to control your vote, or lazy people who don't want to work for what they get.

Yeah, but how do you really feel?

Barry Sanders reportedly is replacing Hank .... I am sure he is not singing, right ... or is he?

Wow.... I hated Bush, but by our system, he was my president, and I hated his policies, but I never compared him to a dictator. This was an opinion that he should have kept to himself, or wrote a song about. I care about HWjr's political opinions, about as much as I care about Ryan Seacrest's..... Glad Hank is gone from MNF. Time for a change anyway.

You know, this is not a "Freedom of Speech" issue. Hank Jr. has every right to say whatever he wants, now matter how stupid it may be. His Freedom of Speech has not been infringed upon! What he is experiencing is the cosequenses of his exercising his Freedom of Speech. We all have the right to say anything we want. Millions of people have died protecting our right, and Hank's rights, to be able to say whatever we want to say. However, if we say somthing publicly, and our employer thinks we are poorly representing their interest, then they have every right to fire us. To be honest with you, I was a little worried about SkyMike a couple of weeks ago when he started the thread about the Houston Fans. So Hank, and us, can go ahead and say anything he wants to, but just remember, there could be cosequenses to the things we say.