The rowdy friends are coming back.
Hank Williams Jr. will return to the opening of Monday Night Football with his song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night” and its catchphrase “Are you ready for some football?” ESPN had dropped the song six years ago after Wiliams made intemperate remarks about President Barack Obama.
The song had played for more than two decades on Monday Night Football and was closely identified with the show, and with football, for a generation of fans. But in 2011, in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, Williams faulted Obama and House Speaker John A.