Rihanna And Don Cheadle Were Pulled From Thursday Night Football, Here's Why — cinemablend.com

Who got shafted in this decision? Rihanna, whose hook for Jay-Z’s song “Run This Town” was going to play during the opening, and actor Don Cheadle, who was to provide narration over the song to give the game of the night some context. The NFL has long used music and celebrities to introduce its primetime telecasts, with Carrie Underwood currently handling the Sunday Night Football theme. And while it isn’t a travesty for audiences to miss out on one of the fluffiest aspects of an NFL broadcast, it seems like a strange move when one of the people in question was the victim of her own domestic abuse case a few years ago. (You may recall Rihanna’s then-boyfriend Chris Brown getting arrested in 2009 for felony assault.)

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