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Another champion team shares a warm embrace with its fans

After a dozen of ’em these last 17 years, these championship parades are getting predictable, I tell you.

For instance, Rob Gronkowski, the Patriots’ good-time tight end who was in full yo soy fiesta mode Tuesday for his third championship parade, guzzled some wine, nuzzled a stuffed goat, wore and then ceased to wear multiple shirts and what appeared to be a Boston Police Department vest, and caught beers and Tide Pods chucked from the crowd. (Gronk drank the former but did not ingest the latter, at least publicly.)

Right . . . so pretty much as expected.