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Watch Rob Gronkowski Set Guinness World Record with Football Catch from 600 Feet

Already regarded as one of the best tight ends in NFL history, Rob Gronkowski is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for a feat he accomplished on Friday night.

Gronkowski caught a football that was dropped from a helicopter hovering 600 feet above the ground at Arizona Stadium:

Bleacher Report

Gronk returned to the Arizona campus and set a world record by catching a football dropped from a helicopter 600 feet above him ud83dudc40 @brgridiron (via @TedyBruschi, @JustinESports) https://t.co/03r45UIbq4

Per Justin Spears of Tucson.com, Gronk's catch broke the Guinness World Record for "highest altitude catch of an American football.