Gronk Is Taking A Beating For Being Gronk

Bostonherald - Rob Gronkowski is a 23-year-old single male who loves to have fun and provide entertainment for the masses. The Gronk is a party animal. That’s no secret. Taken at face value, it’s hard not to appreciate and enjoy someone who so thoroughly enjoys life. fBut then you watch the TMZ video of the Patriots tight end at the XS nightclub in Las Vegas on Sunday night, dancing shirtless on stage and lifting up a presumed friend and slamming him to the ground, wrestling-style. This might seem like harmless fun, except Gronkowski was using his recently re-repaired broken left forearm to help hoist his friend up and over. According to a source close to Gronk, he didn’t appear to do any more harm to the forearm, which was in a long black cast.But you still have to sit back and wonder what he was thinking Gronkowski probably wasn’t thinking about team owner Robert Kraft, who agreed to hand over $54 million with a six-year contract extension. He probably wasn’t thinking about New England fans, who pay good money in hopes of watching him play every week. He probably wasn’t thinking about Bill Belichick’s famous words to every player: “Do your job.’’ Gronkowski constantly talks about the team concept. He just has to figure out what that really means. Gronkowski doesn’t have to stop having fun. He doesn’t have to stop being Gronk. He just has to sit back and take stock of what’s gone on the past year. He has to realize how much the Patriots have invested in him. He has to stop being so impulsive and doing the things that might potentially cost him and his team.

So according to Sales Guy who literally does nothing but sit in his office and listen to sports talk radio all day Gronk is taking an absolute beating from fans today. Everybody freaking out about him DDT’ing his brother in Vegas. That he doesn’t care about winning, he’s selfish, he needs to grow up, he’s trying to hard to live up to his reputation, blah, blah, blah (As a side note how hard is it to figure out that it’s his brother on stage with him) Anyway this shit pisses me off about the media. They always want it both ways. Gronk is a phenomenon. He’s one of the few if only athletes who hasn’t been changed or jaded by the media or becoming famous at all. All fans do is rant and rave about what jerks athletes are. The Barry Bonds, Arod’s, Ray Lewis’s of the world. Well what we have here with Gronk is a perfect engine. A partying machine, it’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is play football and drink and make little Gronks. A guy who hasn’t changed one iota since he first got drafted and put on his Patriots helmet with his family and did the Gronk chant. A guy that despite having the greatest season any TE in football is the same exact guy. A guy the media has fawned over for the last 365 days. That’s what makes him so likable.

Bottomline is you can’t have it both ways. You can’t be like “It’s okay for Gronk to be Gronk but he just has to think more”. That’s the whole point. Gronk doesn’t think. He is a Neanderthal. Was it smart to DDT his brother when he had a broken arm? Probably not, but who gives a fuck? That’s part of what makes him who he is. Do you think that’s not happening at his new mansion in Tampa Bay when the cameras aren’t around? Of course it is. I guess that’s my point. I don’t want Gronk to change at all. (except stop getting hurt and missing the playoffs) As he’s said before he’s never been in trouble with the law. All he does is party hard. But it’s never affected his play on the field. He’s a beast. You can’t nitpick his personality. You can’t want the same Gronk but not want him wrestling his brothers on stage. It doesn’t work that way. Gronk is the genuine article and anybody who criticizes him for living his life is a fool.