Andrew Gruttadaro

New York

Senior Editor at The Ringer

Special Projects Lead, @ringer. Andy's my grandfather. Call me Andrew.

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A Power Ranking of Basically Everything in Season 4 of ‘Outer Banks’

Nov 21, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Netflix/Ringer illustration It happens about once a year. The wind shifts, the salt wafts off the sea and through the air, the sun settles at a point in the sky so that it’s always a perfect shade of yellow-orange outside. And that’s how you know that Outer Banks has returned. With all due respect to Ripley, Squid Game, and every bonkers show Ryan Murphy has ever created, this is the greatest thing that has ever aired on Netflix.
The Sabres Are Finally Going to Do It ("Do" Meaning "Get" and "It" Meaning "a Giant Scoreboard")

Oct 9, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Fans of the Buffalo Sabres have long awaited this moment. For over a decade—through multiple tanks, rebuilds, and disappointments, through that one COVID season where they were one of just six teams that didn’t make the expanded playoffs—they have waited for something they can believe in. Something they can look up to. Something that makes them feel like everything will be OK.
Why Did Taylor Swift Want to Live in the 1830s?

Apr 19, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/Ringer illustration It’s probably unfair to nitpick a couple of lines from a collection of 31 songs. I’ll admit that. Taylor Swift’s new double album, The Tortured Poets Department, is more than two hours long, and in that time she says a lot of words—10,663, to be exact.
Everything You Need to Know About Buffalo’s Pit, the Most Powerful Force in the NFL

Jan 17, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/AP Images/Ringer illustration Orchard Park, New York, is a strange place. First of all, not a ton of orchards there, in my experience. Far more Tim Hortonses. But more specifically, Orchard Park is an unassuming bit of flat land located 12 miles away from downtown Buffalo. Founded in 1803 by a man named Didymusand his wife, Phebe, it sits just off of Lake Erie, in the heart of a snow band that consistently pummels the area while other nearby towns remain dry.
The Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket: In a Real Jerk Move, a Winner Is Crowned

Aug 11, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

The Jerks Bracket final can be summed up in one image: Happy Gilmore Productions That’s Shooter McGavin running off with a title that Cartman seemed to have in the bag. And this time, no one’s going to beat the ever-living hell out of Shooter—because this time, he actually won. Ladies and gentlemen, meet your champion jerk. Happy Gilmore Productions It was an astounding final between two jerks who really separated themselves from the pack over the week.
The Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket: The Final Four

Aug 10, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

The first half of Thursday’s two-round jerk extravaganza, the Elite Eight, featured two blowouts and two close matchups. Apparently, nothing is going to stop Shooter McGavin and Cartman. The no. 1 overall seed coming into this Jerk-Off, Shooter has earned that distinction with rout after rout. After cruising through Caillou, White Goodman, and Top Gun’s Iceman with an average 79 percent of the vote, he kept it going with a 73 percent to 27 percent victory over Office Space’s Bill Lumbergh.
The Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket: The Elite Eight

Aug 9, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

“Jerk” can be a pretty blanket term. It’s been directed at a variety of different archetypes, its meaning has changed over time, and the large “jerk” umbrella contains many subsets. Those facts are why trimming down the field of the Jerk Bracket to 64 characters was so difficult and why the competition itself has been so interesting.
The Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket: Round 2

Aug 7, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

The opening round of the Jerks Bracket is over. We started with 64 jerks, now we’re down to 32. There was one overwhelming theme in Round 1 of The Ringer’s Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket: overwhelming dominance. Across 32 matchups, only three were decided by less than 10 percentage points.
The Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket

Aug 6, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Every movie and television show has their heroes and villains, their protagonists and antagonists. After centuries of storytelling, we know what the general arcs of these two archetypes will be: who will come out on top, who’ll lose, who’ll reassure us that the world is full of justice and meaning. These two sides of the coin serve an important purpose—but, come on, between us … they can get pretty boring, right?
The Gradations of Assholery: A Jerks Week Explainer

Aug 6, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/Ringer illustration On Monday, August 7, The Ringer launched the first round of the Best Pop Culture Jerks Bracket. (Don’t boo—vote.) It’s a competition full of some of TV and movies’ greatest characters whom you love to hate, and maybe also some who are just so freaking annoying—looking at you, Caillou—that you can’t do anything but appreciate their ability to be annoying. We really do think it’s a tremendous assortment of 64 jerks—the best ones, in our humble opinion.