Hank Williams Jr: New Song Fuels Controversy with ESPN and Fox News

Are you ready for some controversy?! With ESPN, Fox News and Hank Williams Junior! 

It sounds like the Country Music star, is not going down quietly after his comments last Monday on the Fox News television program “Fox and Friends”, comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.  

After those comments, ESPN decided to pull the song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” from their Monday Night Football intro. The song by Hank Williams Jr. has been the intro to the program since 1989.  

A week has passed with people making their opinions felt on both sides of this situation and the television show, Saturday Night Live, making their obligatory parody sketch on the situation.  

The only person that we didn’t hear from, aside from a written apology on his website, was Hank. 

So, where has Hank been since his early morning appearance?  

Apparently, he has been in the studio recording a new song called “I’ll Keep My....” The song is his way to say that his words were taken out of context and twisted, as his song starts with these opening lines:

"So Fox 'n Friends wanna put me down

Ask for my opinion

Twist it all around."

And the song ends with:

“Well two can play that gotcha game you’ll see.”

Williams Jr. told the AP that he wrote the song Friday and recorded it in Nashville later that day. Supporters of Hank can expect to see the new song available in iTunes soon.  

In the song, Williams Jr. sings that the U.S. is “going down the drain” and becoming “The United Socialist States of America.” The song also implores his supporters to not watch ESPN.  

Going forward, ESPN will not use the “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” song. Instead each week they will opt for using a former superstar of the home team. Tonight’s Bears vs. Lions game from Detroit, will have former Lions running back Barry Sanders do the into.  

Will it be as good as Hank Williams Jr.'s song?  

That’s for his supporters and detractors to debate.  

Those who see his comments as out-of-line and think that he should be pulled, will not miss the song.  

However, all of Hank’s rowdy friends who loved hearing him before every Monday Night game, will miss the song and support him throughout this incident. 

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