Rihanna did not appreciate CBS Sports pulling her song from the original opening of “Thursday Night Football” last week.
“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,” the artist tweeted on Sept. 16.
She added in her next tweet, “The audacity…”
CBS responded a few hours later and said it would be "moving in a different direction" with its opening montage for "Thursday Night Football," according to The New York Times. CBS will create a new theme song in-house that will be used for the rest of the season.
Last week, the network decided to drop the opening that used Rihanna’s song “Run This Town” and the introduction by actor Don Cheadle in light of the Ray Rice scandal. CBS Sports cited the “time and tone” for its decision.
"We thought journalistically and from a tone standpoint, we needed to have the appropriate tone and coverage," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus told SI.com. "A lot of the production elements we wanted in the show are being eliminated because of time or tone."
Rihanna was the victim of a domestic violence case with her former boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009. He severely beat her after departing from Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party and left her battered, bleeding and swollen. Brown received probation, counseling and community service after he entered a guilty plea for one count of felony assault, according to USA Today.
The pre-game show instead discussed the ongoing controversy surrounding Rice and the NFL’s handling of the situation. CBS Sports commentator James Brown gave a eloquent monologue on the need for the NFL and all men to get involved and stand with women against domestic violence.
