As Fox is getting ready to begin the 2025 NFL season, they've settled on a successor to Jimmy Johnson in the studio for Fox NFL Sunday.
When Johnson announced his retirement in March, there was speculation that Fox would try to bring in Howie Long's son, Chris, and/or Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson from Inside The NFL, which already lost Bill Belichick after 1 season (North Carolina), and I wrote at the time that the speculation was a gigantic waste of time.
Five months later, Fox ended the speculation, by promoting USAA shill Rob Gronkowski to full-time co-anchor.
You were expecting Tank McNamara?
When Gronkowski has filled in for Johnson over the last two seasons, to give him some credit, he has come off as being prepared, and knowledgeable, putting his clown act aside. Now, however, he has big shoes to fill in succeeding the Original Combover. Maybe Fox was afraid ESPN would poach Gronk to replace the retiring Lee Corso for College GameDay, which begins its new season by having what amounts to a retirement party for Corso on August 30, but ESPN already has Pat McAfee as the new clown prince of college football.
Regardless, Sunday at lunch time won't be boring.
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