Rihanna And Jay Z’s ‘Run This Town’ Permanently Benched By CBS Sports — mtv.com

CBS Sports has benched Rihanna and Jay Z‘s “Run This Town” for the rest of the NFL season. After pulling the song last week for the season debut of Thursday Night Football on the network, a CBS Sports spokesperson confirmed for MTV News on Tuesday (September 16) that the song will not be played at all this season. “Beginning this Thursday, we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our Thursday Night Football open,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “We will be using our newly created Thursday Night Football theme music to open our game broadcast.”

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