Gronk Gym: How The Gronkowski Boys All Got So Good At Sports | ThePostGame
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Some interesting stuff, but kind of a weird/lazy article in that it only mentions their mother in an "oh yeah, she probably did something for her kids too" aside at the end. It creates a probably mistaken impression of the Gronks' childhood home as having the atmosphere of a military training camp.
FWIW here's a SMYoung piece from last year where she actually bothered to interview BOTH parents:
Tight with them - Boston.com
Their mother is only mentioned in the aside at the end because the article isn't about the boys and their family life. The article is about the father.
Rob had surgery too -- so serious that he very nearly retired and collected a $4 million insurance policy set up by his dad. He refused, taking a huge financial chance.
Their mother is only mentioned in the aside at the end because the article isn't about the boys and their family life. The article is about the father.
How strange. And here I thought from the title "How The Gronkowski Boys All Got So Good At Sports," and how the structure of the article is proposing a variety of hypotheses about how the Gronkowski boys all got so good at sports (some about their dad, some not), that the article was about how the Gronkowski boys all got so good at sports.
What I learned is that the fact that they had a great-great-grandfather who was an Olympic cyclist is highly relevant, but the superhuman efforts of their devoted stay-at-home mom, documented elsewhere, were pretty much beside the point. (Notice how there's zero mention of nutrition, which you'd usually expect to see in an article of this kind? That's presumably because it was 100% mom's domain.)
It's fine to publish an interview with Gordy Sr., just present it as such.
Interesting content, but poorly written/reported.
How strange. And here I thought from the title "How The Gronkowski Boys All Got So Good At Sports," and how the structure of the article is proposing a variety of hypotheses about how the Gronkowski boys all got so good at sports (some about their dad, some not), that the article was about how the Gronkowski boys all got so good at sports.
What I learned is that the fact that they had a great-great-grandfather who was an Olympic cyclist is highly relevant, but the superhuman efforts of their devoted stay-at-home mom, documented elsewhere, were pretty much beside the point. (Notice how there's zero mention of nutrition, which you'd usually expect to see in an article of this kind? That's presumably because it was 100% mom's domain.)
It's fine to publish an interview with Gordy Sr., just present it as such.
Any name can be shorted but the correct way of shortening this name is not Gronk but Gron. He's just too good a player to ape out in some sophomoric way. Give him the class he deserves.