NHL Names Kid Rock As All-Star Game Act; Twitter Says What The Puck?

The National Hockey League’s excited announcement  that Kid Rock will perform at its All-Star Game on Jan. 28 in Tampa, Florida, got a cold reception from some folks on Twitter.

Cold, but funny.

Critics had plenty of reasons to protest the league’s polarizing choice of the musician. He supported Donald Trump ’s campaign, used a four-letter criticism of Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest, and enthusiastically displayed the Confederate flag.

In addition, Kid Rock hasn’t had a Billboard chart-topping album since 2007 (“Rock N Roll Jesus”), and that was his only one.

Social media pretty much called out the NHL’s choice for all of the above.

Here’s a sampling: