Deadspin on GRONK tying Stanley Morgan's record

[ctpatsfan77]

Heh.

http://deadspin.com/gronk-knows-what-number-comes-after-68-1788130072

 

[Gronkowski123]

the pc police are coming after gronk!!

i expect stephen a and max to have a segment on gronks childish behavior. they'll probably bring up the race card!!

 

[p8ryts]

Wasn't he referring to the one they called a rushing to?

 

[deters]

Wasn't he referring to the one they called a rushing to?

Either that or he's excited for 69 during the game and after...

 

[Schmo]

I vaguely remember the rushing one....was it just a lateral pass?

 

[rochrist]

I vaguely remember the rushing one....was it just a lateral pass?

Yeah. It was just the tiniest bit backwards.

 

[Nikolai]

Yeah. It was just the tiniest bit backwards.

Ruled a passing TD on the field and reversed 10 minutes later or somesuch. It was supposed to be the record-setting TD, so he wound up getting the receiving TD the next drive I think.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Wasn't he referring to the one they called a rushing to?

No. They both have 67 receiving TDs. They each have one non-receiving TD (GRONK rushing, Morgan on PR).

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Ruled a passing TD on the field and reversed 10 minutes later or somesuch. It was supposed to be the record-setting TD, so he wound up getting the receiving TD the next drive I think.

The next week, against the Redskins.

 

[TB_Helmet]

The article is actually pretending not to understand the implications of 69 as a sex position and is instead pretending to make fun of Gronk for being able to count. It's a stupid joke. That author calls himself a Patriots fan but he rips on them all the time and calls them cheaters. He's super fake. And I like Deadspin a lot FWIW.

 

[meatface]

the pc police are coming after gronk!!

i expect stephen a and max to have a segment on gronks childish behavior. they'll probably bring up the race card!!

Literally no one is having that reaction

 

[meatface]

The article is actually pretending not to understand the implications of 69 as a sex position and is instead pretending to make fun of Gronk for being able to count. It's a stupid joke. That author calls himself a Patriots fan but he rips on them all the time and calls them cheaters. He's super fake. And I like Deadspin a lot FWIW.

Lighten up dude; does it really matter?

 

[Koma]

The article is actually pretending not to understand the implications of 69 as a sex position and is instead pretending to make fun of Gronk for being able to count. It's a stupid joke. That author calls himself a Patriots fan but he rips on them all the time and calls them cheaters. He's super fake. And I like Deadspin a lot FWIW.

Samer Kalef, right? He's a phony in terms of being a Patriots fan. It's interesting that Deadspin has done some of the best reporting on the NFL bungling the Brown and Rice investigations, they refuse to look at the league's PSI investigation and wonder if they screwed that up to. You'd think a Pats fan on staff would try to explore that angle.

 

[Koma]

Ruled a passing TD on the field and reversed 10 minutes later or somesuch. It was supposed to be the record-setting TD, so he wound up getting the receiving TD the next drive I think.

While I was initially ticked off by that call in a "just give it to him" sense, I don't have problem with it. It was a lateral or backwards pass, so it went as a rushing attempt. Those are the rules, they were applied correctly, so that's fine.

What does bother me is that a few years later, when Manning was setting the TD record, he threw a backwards pass to Decker for a TD and it counted towards the record. Same situation, same rules, different players, different result.

 

[TB_Helmet]

Lighten up dude; does it really matter?

The article itself doesn't, for sure. I mostly just wanted to rip on the author.