ESPN has announced that musician Hank Williams Jr. and his rowdy friends are returning to the NFL's Monday Night Football.
Williams is set to perform a new version of "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" before the Sept. 11 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings, the Tennessean reported Monday.
Williams' trademark line, "Are you ready for some football?," will be included.
Stephanie Druley, ESPN's senior vice president of events and studio production, said it is a return to the past and that the song belongs on Monday Night Football.
"I think it's a return to our past in that it's such an iconic song associated with football," Druley said. "It belongs to Monday Night Football. It really is about returning to what fans know. It's a Monday night party and that's what we're all hoping to get back to."
Williams is excited to return to Monday Night Football.
"I never said, 'Are you ready for some football' on stage one time the last five or six years, but I will now," Willliams said. "I'm feeling at home and it's a real good thing ... It's kind of like the Nashville Predators playing for the Stanley Cup, it's like 'Wow.'"
Williams was removed as the opening singer back in 2011, when he compared then-President Obama to Hitler.
"That would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu. Not hardly. In the shape this country is in?" Williams said in reference to then-Speaker of the House John Boehner playing golf with Obama.
Druley is not concerned about the backlash over the decision to bring back Williams.
"I'm sure there'll be some, but I'm not concerned. It was the right time. We discussed it internally and it was just the right time to bring him back."
The most electrifying man in all of entertainment and possible presidential candidate Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson approved of ESPN's decision in a tweet.
Great to see Bocephus back. Always one of my favs. #FamilyTradition https://t.co/r04BDdix4b
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 5, 2017
Williams recently performed at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Atlanta.