After Tom Brady led the Tampa Buccaneers to a win in Super Bowl 55, there is no doubt that he is the greatest quarterback to ever play the game of football. With that said — he’s not done playing yet! And neither is his sidekick – Rob Gronkowski!
At the beginning of the 2020 NFL season, Gronkowski made the decision to come out of retirement — and that had a lot to do with some mild convincing from Tom Brady.
After the 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, Gronkowski opened up about how Brady convinced him to unretire last spring and join him on the Bucs.
“It was kind of a series of conversations. It wasn’t anything like, ‘Hey Rob I want you to come back, come to Tampa with me.’ It was over a little bit of time. A couple conversations,” Gronkowski said.
“[Brady] hit me up and was like, ‘Would you come down?’ And I was like, ‘I’ve been waiting for you. I’ve been waiting for you to make a move.’ It’s just been over a series of just talks. It’s just an unbelievable story. There’s a lot more conversations that went down but we’re just going to keep them between us.
Gronkowski ended up with six catches for 67 yards and two touchdowns in Super Bowl 55. So needless to say, Gronk made a pretty good decision to come back to the NFL.
“Overall, just coming down to Tampa Bay, just coming into this organization, they were an organization ready to win,” Gronkowski said. “The players here were ready to win, and just to come in and be a small part of it and play my role was just amazing. Just to come here and have situation like this with so many players and be Super Bowl 55 champs is just unreal. It’s surreal, man.”
It looks like Brady and Gronk won’t be going anywhere, either. After the 43-year-old QB declared he and the Bucs are “coming back” for another run in 2021, Gronkowski announced he plans to play next season.