Gronk going on Chiclets was supposed to be a layup. Big guy, big personality, beer in hand, talk some football, talk some hockey, everybody goes home happy. Instead he sat down, looked Ryan Whitney dead in the eye, told him he had nothing on him, and then immediately turned the gun sideways at Biz.
Gronk picking his target on the Chiclets set.
The narcing was instant and it was thorough. Whatever Gronk dropped about Biz's dating-app activity was enough to make even other Barstool guys sit up and tweet about it in real time, which tells you everything about the temperature in that room.
The in-house reaction to Gronk pulling the pin on his co-host.
I cannot believe Gronk just narced on @BizNasty2point0 like that 😭
Naturally the main account smelled blood and started framing this as the next great rivalry. Gronk vs. Biz isn't exactly Bird vs. Magic, but for a Friday night on stoolie Twitter it absolutely plays — a Hall of Fame tight end calling out a former AHL grinder for swiping too aggressively is the kind of dumb beef the internet was built for.
The matchup getting the official rivalry treatment.
Then Donnie rolled in with the only defense that actually matters. His point: Biz is a single man. Single men are allowed to maximize their matches. You can question the volume, you can question the tactics, but you cannot shame the grind — and you definitely can't do it from a Chiclets mic with a camera on you.
Donnie planting the flag on behalf of single guys everywhere.
@barstoolsports @BizNasty2point0 @RobGronkowski Listen I’m a big Gronk guy, but no man, let alone @BizNasty2point0, should ever be shamed for trying to maximize his matches on Raya.
Portnoy, predictably, jumped in to fact-check the timeline and shoot down the implication that a boat cruise automatically meant anything happened, which is its own genre of Barstool content at this point. The whole thing is a perfect snapshot of how this place operates: one guy goes on a podcast, narcs on his coworker, and within hours the entire roster is publicly relitigating it. Biz's move now is whatever Biz's move is — but the bone has officially been picked.