Former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight finish Rob Gronkowski retired with 4 Tremendous Bowl rings and is undoubtedly one in all, if not the best tight ends in NFL historical past.
It has been enjoyable to listen to extra from him since he retired, and he lately revealed why his first Tremendous Bowl was “miserable.”
Gronk appeared on Julian Edelman’s Names With Video games podcast lately and stated that when his crew misplaced to the New York Giants in Tremendous Bowl XLVI after his second season within the league, he was depressing as a result of he was preventing by way of a high-ankle sprain that he suffered within the AFC Championship sport on a hip drop sort out from Baltimore Ravens security Bernard Pollard, noting that the damage presumably modified the trajectory of the sport for his Pats.
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Gronk additionally famous that it might need been depressing as a result of they had been in Indianapolis.
He labeled Pollard a “dirty player” and a “Patriot killer” whereas stating how he additionally tore Tom Brady’s ACL and damage Wes Welker at one level as nicely.
Pollard really hit Welker and tore his ACL and MCL, whereas additionally knocking former working again Stevan Ridley out of a sport.
Gronkowski had surgical procedure shortly after that Tremendous Bowl to restore the strained ligaments in his ankle and posted simply two catches for 26 yards within the loss, whereas additionally arising simply in need of catching Brady’s Hail Mary try on the finish of the sport.
It’s a very good factor this wasn’t the one Tremendous Bowl Gronk made it to, because the 4 rings certainly helped digest this loss.
