Sometimes, male professional athletes are the weirdest dudes. At the end of the day, they’re males, and sometimes, males don’t give a shit about things that people would assume they would. If people were saying my last name wrong, I’m pretty sure I would make it clear that it is an incorrect way to say it. My last name is a mouthful so people saying it right would be a win in its own right. But Robert Tonyan told the Green Bay Packers media yesterday that is his last name does not pronounce like Tan-Yon instead it is a Tun-Yon, similar to how you pronounce onion. I’ll be 100 percent honest here. This is going to be a hard one to change.

I have some news: Packers PR has alerted us that Robert Tonyan’s last name is pronounced “Tunyan,” as in rhyming with “Funion.” Apparently he just didn’t feel like correcting anybody the last two years.

— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) October 22, 2020

When you say Big Bob Tonyan in the way we used to say his last name, it flows off the tongue. The sounds of birds chirping in the background. But when you go Big Bob Tonyan with the new pronunciation it doesn’t have the same feel. I don’t get that tingle. I’ve seen some on Reddit and Twitter go the Roberto Grande direction which isn’t a bad one. But I might apply the same technique that Ronnie applied in the American classic ‘Role Models.’ For those unfamiliar with that technique, enjoy.

“You Big Bob Tonyan.”

Charlie.