You could almost hear the collective anger when FOX Sports announced that Rob Gronkowski would replace Jimmy Johnson on FOX NFL Sunday.
After decades of sharp analysis and old-school grit, Johnson walked away from the studio desk at the end of last season. Fans may have expected a shake-up, but this? Gronk? The guy best known for spiking footballs and shouting “Yo soy fiesta”? That didn’t sit well.
Sure, Gronk is a four-time Super Bowl champ and has done plenty of work with the network before. He’s loud, likable, and knows how to grab attention. But for a lot of NFL fans, that’s exactly the problem. They wanted insight, not just random, useless talks.
NFL Fans Sound Off, And It’s Not Pretty
Social media wasted no time dragging FOX for the move. The reaction was fast, loud, an