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Rob Gronkowski, Bucs Donate Football Equipment to HS Team Affected by Fire

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski announced he is helping replace football equipment at a local high school that was lost in a fire:

A May fire at Blake High School in Tampa destroyed an equipment shed that housed thousands of dollars worth of football equipment.

"It all could have cost more than $15,000 easily," junior varsity head coach Michael Castellana said, per Josh Fiallo of the Tampa Bay Times. "The budgets are so tight. The money won't be there [in the yearly budget] to replace everything, let alone 25 percent of it.