Last week, in the midst of all the Ray Rice domestic violence mess the NFL decided that having Rihanna open Thursday Night Football with her song “Run This Town” was a bad idea. Now it appears they’d like a do-over and want to use it this week instead. (Because, you know, they got that whole men hitting women thing settled real nicely and everyone’s forgotten, right?)
CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, Fuck you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this.
— Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014
The audacity…
— Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014
She does kind of have a point. All Rihanna did to get her song pulled last week was be the one who GOT punched in the face as opposed to being the one doing the punching – the NFL’s main issue of the week/year.
So far at least one famous person, model Chrissy Teigen, has got Ri-Ri’s back. (I think. So hard to tell if sarcasm is involved on Twitter.)
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/511861130671960064
Rihanna image by Helga Esteb/Shutterstock