Hours before Super Bowl LIV kicked off in February, Fox ran a comedy sketch centered on former NFL stars Rob Gronkowski, James Harrison and Vernon Davis living it up “Golden Girls”-style in retirement. The video also broke some news, as Davis turned to the camera and acknowledged for the first time, “That’s right, I’m retiring!”
The irony isn’t lost on Davis that Gronkowski has come out of retirement to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season in the short time since that sketch aired. “Yeah, it’s like we traded places, so it is interesting,” Davis said in a recent interview.