Will Rob Gronkowski play in the NFL next season, or will he retire? At this point, your guess is as good as ours.
One thing we can say with near certainty, however, is that Gronk’s recent deluge of cryptic tweets indicates the New England Patriots tight end is toying with us.
It all started with this gem:
Forseee your own future, control your own temptations, and your destiny will be not just be reached, it will just be starting.
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) February 24, 2018
Whatever that means.
Then we got these two tweets, which fueled speculation that Gronkowski is considering ditching football and joining the WWE:
There are NO limits!!!!!
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) February 26, 2018
It's a team effort with Family and Friends! @MojoRawleyWWE https://t.co/Av1AK5UBe2
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) February 27, 2018
Still with us? Good.
Things started getting particularly bizarre Wednesday, when NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported that Gronkowski is expected to return for the 2018 season. The news was music to Patriots fans’ ears, but their excitement quickly turned to confusion when Gronk — likely reacting to Rapoport’s report — tweeted this:
#clueless 🤷♂️
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) February 28, 2018
A reply from WWE wrestler Mojo Rawley, one of Gronkowski’s good friends, certainly didn’t help matters.
https://twitter.com/MojoRawleyWWE/status/969083948872724480
Rawley’s tweet seemingly gave some credence to belief that Gronkowski is trolling everyone. As did Rapoport’s follow-up report, in which he said the 28-year-old tight end has “enjoyed” watching people speculate about his future.
But Gronk finally might’ve exposed himself his latest tweet, which came late Thursday night.
“ Bands a make her dance “
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) March 2, 2018
Sure.
Now, there has been no official word on whether Gronkowski will retire or not, so anything is possible at this point. But we find it extremely hard to believe that the Patriots superstar would string his team and fans along this far if he truly was planning to retire.
If Gronkowski really wanted to walk away from football and start acting/professional wrestling, he probably would’ve announced it by now, rather than tease it with a series of vague tweets. Furthermore, it’s tough to imagine Gronk playing social-media chicken with Tom Brady, Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick.
(Are we really to believe the Patriots’ power trio have no idea what Gronkowski plans to do?)
Although, given recent report’s of Gronkowski’s angst-ridden 2017 season, perhaps this is just his way of finally having some long-overdue fun at their expense — and ours.
