Open Thread: Gronkowski And Brady Stories Receiving Too Much Focus

..it’s overkill. But the reality is that sports is a form of entertainment, so you kind of have to take the good with the bad. The oversaturated analysis of players personal lives is part of the that—no different than folks obsession Lyndsey Lohan or Demi More. The season is over, but the drama must live on—god forbid we lose interest or stop buying jerseys.

hearing about Tim Tebow is always a good thing. Then again they made sure to get an interview in with him at half time of the SB too. No getting away from these guys. I could care less about Gronk’s partying or Giselle’s comments personally.

When someone released an unauthorized biography of Watler Payton last year, this was my reaction:

Should the general public feel entitled to know about the personal lives of performers? Should said performers have any legal recourse against unauthorized biographies? What right do I have to release a product with your name on it, your face, filled with information about your life, and make money off of it? Freedom of speech doesn’t cover it any more than the right to bear arms gives me the right to walk into your house wielding a shotgun. Either way I should have your blessing or you should have legal recourse.

I know it is what it is, but someone should ask what it should be.

And I still feel that way. Who cares if Gronkowski goes out dancing? Is he supposed to lie in bed crying until training camp? Who cares what Brady’s girlfriend says? None of this is news to a football fan.

As usual, I blame ESPN.

why would any one have a problem with that? Did he not play in the game?

Would it really be any different than if he was at the club after a win?

now, if he was clubing the night before, I think that would be a different story….

Especially when Rodney Harrison came out with his comments where he called Gronk out, saying he was immature and self centered for dancing the night away after the Superbowl loss. I would say that it was actually quite the opposite in terms of maturity. The fact that after a crushing defeat, Gronk was able to go out and party like it’s 1999 shows me a lot of maturity. Gronk was not arrested, didn’t overdose, didn’t get into a fight (and you know that there had to be Giant’s fans at that club who were probably goading him on…) and the fact that he was smart enough to go with teammates and security actually shows a lot of maturity on his part.

Gronk gets it, that in the end, it’s a game, and there are better things to do than sit around at home, pouting about it and sobbing over a bottle of Jack Daniels. He’s still on a good team, and they have as good of a shot next year as they did this year of winning it all. It had to be hard enough on him as is. He was legitimately injured, was partly responsible for not breaking up a key turnover, and in the end, still had a chance to win the game if he only would have been standing 3 feet to the left of where Brady tossed that jump ball. He could have sat in his hotel room all night “Bradying,” but instead, Gronk tried to make a positive out of the situation by leaving the hotel with some teammates, possibly hook up with some nice young ladies, and celebrating what they HAD accomplished. I’d say that’s a pretty good attitude.

Did Gronk look like an ass stumbling around drunk with his shirt off? Yes, but he’s also a young man. Alcohol (hopefully) is still a fairly new experience to him and hopefully he’ll drink just a little more responsibly as he gets older (and keep his shirt on as well, but if I was as cut as that guy is with that many young ladies swarming around me, I might remove mine as well.) It might have looked silly on the video, but at least when he removed his shirt he proved to security that he wasn’t carrying a firearm in his trousers. =P