I will, and I know at least a handful of others who are going to take that stand as well.
Good for y'all.
Probably won't have any discernable effect. Though it will show me where people stand (or don't) on the simple concept of Right and Wrong. To me no sporting event, concert, etc... is more important than my beliefs, ideology, and philosophy. Simple as that.
While you might
imagine that you are taking a stand
against his firing, you are actually
engaging in the very same behaviors that
caused his firing. If nobody ever engaged in such irrational, emotionally-charged behaviors, Hank would still have his job. But because people such as yourself go overboard over pure nonsense like this, he got fired.
I see the intro as a part of the greater product, and its removal as a political statement which I will not support. Just like the Ben & Jerry's issue I mentioned earlier.
It's not a political statement, it's a business decision.
A business decision based on their assessment of what
other people's political decisions might be. Having a controversial figure doing the intro is likely to lead to advertisers getting squirrelly about taking the advertising slots immediately before and after that intro because people might choose to avoid such products based on their irrational, emotionally charged political stances.
That's how MNF would lose money over this issue, since it will still remain one of the most watched, if not the most watched, program in it's time slot. The only risk to them is that advertisers choose to avoid those advertising slots, which they might do in order to avoid losing profits as well.
The advertisers and ESPN are both aware that the product (NFL football) is far more important towards viewership than
which washed up singer sings the
theme song for that product. They aren't afraid of people not watching football (despite the few people who will think that doing exactly the same thing that
got Hank fired will somehow prove something other than the fact that they don't really get
why Hank was fired).
The biggest risk (in truth, the only real risk) were the advertising slots immediately before and after the intro.
The same thing was true with the Dixie chicks. It's a business decision designed to appeal to advertisers, who are afraid of being associated with morons who can't keep their traps shut despite their income being based on public perception of them. Just like how Gilbert Godfried got fired form being the voice for that annoying ****ing AFLAC bird over his tsunami jokes. Advertisers understand how public perception affects their profits. Celebrities apparently do not.