Posted on 01/28/2024 10:11:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Rob Gronkowski asked a very embarrassing question during FOX’s halftime show on Sunday.
Gronk was part of FOX’s crew covering the pregame, halftime and postgame shows for the NFC Championship Game between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
During halftime, the rock band Journey, which was founded in San Francisco, put on a performance.
According to FOX’s other personalities, Gronk asked “who’s Journey?” upon learning they were putting on the halftime show.
Howie Long indicated that despite not knowing the name of the band, Gronk claimed to at least recognize the song “Don’t Stop Believin'” as it was being played.
“I know this song. I know this song!” Gronk apparently exclaimed upon hearing the song.
The admission from Gronk, as related by FOX’s crew, left many online users in disbelief.
Journey has had six songs that reached the Billboard top 10, including two No. 1 hits. They have sold over 100 million records globally.
Here is their most famous song — Don’t Stop Believin’.
And here is my favorite Journey song – “Any Way You Want It.”
Get with the program, Gronk!
He was born in 1989....
Sam as Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
Okay, so Gronk would lose badly on ‘Name that Tune.’ Did anyone seriously expect him to know anything about anything other than football?
in his defense, Journy sucks
I think that it’s great that he doesn’t know all these groups. I know more about that sort of stuff than I should. I was edified when I was courting my future wife (born in ‘77), and she didn’t know who George Harrison was.
I would've thought "Lights" would be their top song, or maybe "Wheel in the Sky". I guess that's just because of my age. Also, I hate the way modern streaming has broken songs that were meant to run together, like Journey's "Feeling That Way / Anytime", Queen's "We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions", Van Halen's "Eruption / You Really Got Me" and Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding".
Not a huge shock. I often get Journey tunes mixed up with songs by Foreigner. Both were groups that had a certain sound but were, for the most part, faceless.
I am with Gronk, who’s Journy ? Like i always say, that’s that Journy song.
Their Infinity album was huge (right up there with Boston’s and Van Halen’s debut albums) when I was in high school, and music was a little less a part of my life after I joined the Navy. I guess I was kinda lucky to have missed out on the 90’s.
>> in his defense, Journy sucks
Always has, always will. Right in there with Boston, Kansas (and a few more similar ones I can’t recall at the moment) and all those other horrible album oriented radio pop-rock bands of the late 70s and early 80s. Ugh!
Full disclosure: Am a child of the 50s, but strangely never had even only a passing interest in Rock.
Having said that, I would probably faintly recognize the name "Journey." The name at least sounds like the typical name of a 70s Rock band.
However, the song "Don't Stop Believin'" is indelibly imprinted on my mind through Bill Clinton's (mis-)use of it as his 1992 presidential campaign song.
(Just looked it up in Wikipedia - that was a different song, "Don't Stop," by a group named "Fleetwood Mac.")
Regards,
Personally, I found that time when he asked if Riemann's Hypothesis could be proven using hyper-elliptical variance in the zeta function much more embarrassing!
Regards,
(Bless him Father, for he has sinned!)
They-ve done well for themselves =>
Band Member Net Worth
Neal Schon $30 million
Jonathan Cain $50 million
Ross Valory $20 million
Steve Smith $15 million
Wow. And Steve Perry got nothing?
Gronk should’ve made a move on Taylor. Must see TV.
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