Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski caused a slight stir this weekend, telling ESPN’s Sage Steele he had his new team’s playbook well before he was traded to Tampa Bay.
The comments came Saturday on the Bud Light Seltzer “Drafterparty” and raise questions about the tight end having communications with another team while still under contract with the New England Patriots.
But this is Gronkowski we’re talking about, so how much of what he said on that broadcast actually was him being serious? According to him, none of it.
“This is seriously a story? Lol,” Gronkowski said in a statement released on Twitter.
“I was just joking around with Sage as I was pretty much the whole time that night when I was co-hosting the show. Wowsers, my co-hosting skills on point!! Lol!! I actually just received my team-issued Surface today from the Bucs and it’s still in the package, and hoping it is all pictures and drawings. I’m pumped to open it one day hopefully soon and follow the arrows and learn where to run to. Gronk run Gronk catch ball. No playbook needed. Hehe.”
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) April 30, 2020
This news comes just a few days after Tom Brady was accused of violating NFL rules by going to Bucs assistant Byron Leftwich’s house, though the league didn’t discipline the team.
