Rob Gronkowski’s couch bounce on FS1’s Julie Stewart-Binks was the lap dance that broke #SportsTwitter on Thursday. The on-air lap dance prompted plenty of quick-trigger reaction, along with more reasonable responses like that from our own Dan Levy or the Chicago Tribune‘s Shannon Ryan.
Naturally, some might wonder how Stewart-Binks’ FS1 colleague Katie Nolan felt about the situation. Drew Magary had the opportunity to ask in an interview for GQ.
“It’s Gronk. He’s gonna do what he’s gonna do. He’s a really nice guy who knows what his brand is. People pitch him segments based on his brand, so he won’t be like “NO!” become something might make him look uncool. But I think when were we’re in sports, and there are only so many women, and that’s how a show chooses to use them… I would love a lap dance from Gronk. I wouldn’t televise it. I wouldn’t use that time to be like, ‘Here’s what it’s like to get a lap dance from Gronk.’ I don’t think anyone meant any harm by it, but the most shared moment from my network today is gonna be a woman getting titty-fucked by Gronk on a couch.”
So that… is certainly a quote, some of which will surely draw attention from Nolan’s employers. Unless the people at FS1 just don’t care because it brings the network and its on-air talent more attention, which seems to be the chief objective. Besides, that sort of candor is one of the reasons Nolan has achieved some notoriety. Magary probably didn’t expect a pat answer to his question, though he got a better one than he may have been expecting.
But Nolan hasn’t only been critical of FS1 in regards to the Gronk lapdance. During the interview with Magary, she acknowledges that she isn’t necessarily a great fit with the high-profile, hot-take trio of Colin Cowherd, Jason Whitlock and Clay Travis. And she criticized Travis on her show. Magary tries to bait her into ripping Cowherd and Whitlock too, but while she doesn’t, her deflective answers are rather telling. Nolan sounds like someone who knows she doesn’t have anything to lose.
Fox is the Yankees.
Simmons is the Mets.Its up to you to figure out who is George Costanza.
— Dan Levy (@DanLevyThinks) February 5, 2016
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