Rihanna Dissed by NFL

With the Ray Rice scandal still fresh in our minds, as well as the recent child abuse accusations levied again Adrian Peterson, the NFL seems to be doing everything it can to separate itself from domestic abuse.

This might include victimizing another victim, Rihanna, who was famously involved in a domestic abuse incident with Chris Brown five years ago. Apparently, Rihanna was already scheduled to have a pre-recorded music segment played during Thursday Night Football, but CBS elected to pull the tape at the last minute, stating;

“We will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our Thursday Night Football open. We will be using our newly created Thursday Night Football theme music to open our game broadcast.”

Rhianna was clearly not happy with CBS, and took to Twitter to vent her frustration. [more…]

“CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, F*** you! Y’all are sad for penalizing me for this.”

Sean MacManus, CBS Sports chairman stated

“We thought journalistically and from a tone standpoint, we needed to have the appropriate tone and coverage. A lot of the production elements we wanted in the show are being eliminated because of time or tone.”

I don’t know about you but I think if the NFL wants to set the right tone, they should focus on getting their players to stop abusing their wives and children, rather than simply tweaking their musical acts.