After nine seasons, four Super Bowls, three championships, 69 career catches against his hometown Buffalo Bills, 6,969 yards of offense he had on regular-season Sundays — seriously, he had 6,967 receiving and 2 rushing — “Yo soy fiesta,” and whatever else you’d like, trying to remember all that Rob Gronkowski the football player was promises to be no easy task. Credit the Patriots for a tremendous start to the effort.
The team released a nearly five-minute tribute to Gronkowski on Wednesday afternoon, three days after the 29-year-old chose to hang it up after what he termed “the most satisfying year I’ve ever been a part of.