Rihanna Slams CBS For Yanking 'Thursday Night Football' Intro (UPDATE)

UPDATE: According to The New York Times' Bill Carter, CBS will not play Rihanna's song during "Thursday Night Football" this week.

After Rihanna protest, CBS will drop her song from opening of Thu Night Football thos week.

— Bill Carter (@wjcarter) September 16, 2014

EARLIER: Last week, CBS pulled Rihanna's intro for "Thursday Night Football" amid Ray Rice's domestic abuse controversy. The original intro showed Rihanna singing Jay Z's "Run This Town," and featured Kanye West.

But in a tweet sent early Tuesday morning, Rihanna slammed the network, suggesting she did not want them to play the clip this week after axing it from the prior broadcast.

CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, Fuck you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this.

— Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014

The audacity...

— Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014

“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 at the time of the decision. “A lot of the production elements we wanted in the show are being eliminated because of time or tone.”

CBS had also nixed a comedy sketch featuring Don Cheadle. Instead, the hour-long pre-game show dedicated 25 minutes to Ray Rice's release and suspension after TMZ released a video of Rice hitting his now-wife, Janay Rice.

CBS has not returned HuffPost Entertainment's immediate request for comment. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/rihanna-cbs-thursday-night-football_n_5828754.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News