Watch Gronk nail James Corden with footballs on The Late Late Show
Hello. In lieu of grim worldwide economic and political news, here’s video of a guy getting hit by footballs:
Yes, that’s everybody’s favorite beer commercial in a man suit, Rob Gronkowski, slinging footballs at “The Late Late Show” host James Corden. Gronk matched up against Liev Schreiber (best known to NFL fans as the voice of HBO’s “Hard Knocks”) and Luke Wilson (best known to NFL fans as … I dunno, the guy who gets his arm chopped off in “Anchorman”).
So who “won” the game? Well, Gronk notched a 10-point strike early on, but Schreiber appeared to fire a ball through the 20-point hole with time expiring. No word on whether anyone tested the balls’ air pressure.
Elsewhere in the show, Gronk held forth on the rules of his family (“No hitting in the face, no hitting in the gonads”) and set up a possible cage match with the Wilson brothers:
Preseason begins soon, friends. Hang in there.
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