Each week, BNQT's scholar-in-residence Pepe McGraw reviews a different action sports athlete's website, for no particular reason whatsoever.  This week, he is on Ronnie Renner.com -Ed.



Ronnie Renner is a pretty cool guy. At least, he seems like a pretty cool guy from what I’ve seen. We asked him to do an interview at a Dew Tour stop a long while back and he was one of the only athletes who took questions about chickens and Corn Flakes and Pants-Off Dance-Offs and banjo playing squirrels in stride. This doesn’t prove Ronnier Renner is a cool guy.  He could cut old ladies off in the supermarket line or habitually kick stray dogs for all I know, but none of this matters: reviewing websites requires ruthless objectivity and we’re here to examine RonnieRenner.com

Ronnie put some work into his site, which is more than you can say for most of the hacks out there. The blog is pretty frequently updated; if you wanted to know how Renner felt after ESPN shafted him out of a chance to win the Moto X Step Up Championship on a coin toss a couple weeks back, you could go to the blog and bone up on the matter. (I personally think riding around the track while lynching a stuffed Mickey Mouse [as in: “Screw Disney”] would be a more effective protest than the fake dump on the EXPN hay bales, but who am I to argue?)

Also among the things you can learn in the blog: Renner says his career is winding down, this will be his last for competition, and he has a “special surprise” planned for July 4th. Seeing as how he rides for Red Bull I am guessing it has to do with a gigantic quarterpipe and a world record. My only qualm with the blog is that it is called “Who’s Your Daddy?” What is this, 1999?

The rest of the site is pretty run-of-the-mill. Renner has posted up some Youtube videos, the coolest of which is his seven-year-old son launching off a ramp, seen here:



I always like it when athletes put their email addresses on their sites. I wrote Ronnie a letter, and we’ll up his website’s grade by a full letter if he gets back. I was tempted to write him something weird just to see if I could rattle his cage a little bit… like maybe that “I am the executive director of a Viatnemese beauty queen contest and we were looking for a celebrity judge and would you be available on the 22nd and you’ll get a free tote bag out of the deal…” but I went a more conservative route.

Renner lists 24 fucking sponsors on his site. After exactly zero hours of research and two minutes of thinking, I am going to proclaim him the “Most-Sponsored Action Sports Athlete on the Planet” for now.

Final Grade: C+ Except for the blog, there’s not much worthwhile on with this site.




Also, I don't know what the hell it is, but if you Youtube search "RenDawg," you get this trollop: