ESPN pulled the popular intro to “Monday Night Football” featuring country singer Hank Williams Jr. after the singer appeared Monday morning on “Fox and Friends” and compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

The intro segment featured various videos for Williams’ hit song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Monday Night" and is best known for its "Are you ready for some football?" ending.

It is not exactly clear what point Williams was trying to make when he commented that Obama’s golf outing with Speaker of the House John Boehner was a political mistake, on par with "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."

In the following clip, Williams does not seem particularly coherent as sits with his arms folded wearing a pair of dark sunglasses professing to tell it like it is. Around the two-minute mark, he stumbles over his words and refers to Obama and Vice President Biden as “the enemy,” likening them to the Three Stooges. Host Steve Doocy notices the mathematic error and quips, “That’s only two.”

ESPN released a statement expressing disappointment in Williams’ comments and pulled the opening promo from Monday night’s telecast. The network says that any further decision will be based on how contrite the singer-songwriter is in the immediate future.

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