Winning is great. Winning and setting a record is even better. Winning, setting a record, and being just a few catches shy of another record, does life get any better?
I submit that it can! Rob Gronkowski did all those things, AND he’s taking all-time tight end playoff records from a guy that tormented New England for a decade in the “how many Manningfaces are we going to get today?” glory years of the Patriots-Colts rivalry.
Going into Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, Gronk only needed 13 yards to pass Colts legend Dallas Clark’s all-time tight end record of 847 postseason receiving yards, a pretty amazing feat given the 2000s Colts’ well-documented tendency to faceplant in the playoffs.