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Let's start with one of the greatest, not the greatest tight ends to ever play the game

debatable. It's debatable. I don't want to do that on his day. It's just that even with

his flowers, man. Yeah, we did that with super. Yeah. Rob Gronkowski is retiring from the

NFL now. He announced this via his Twitter account today that he was going to retire and

this is his post. And you can read most of his posts on Twitter. It says in college,

I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and where the location

would be every time I had to write about my future, no matter what, I picked being a professional

football player. For that assignment, though, we had to pick the location. So I wrote that

I wanted to play in Tampa for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For many reasons, one, the

sunny weather, two completely for he actually completely forgot about writing this report until

two years ago when he had the opportunity to actually join the books. And let me tell you

how the journey in Tampa over the last two years has blown away what I originally wrote

about college big time. And for this, I want to take the whole entire first class Buccaneers

organization for an amazing ride, trusting me to come back and play and help build a champion

ship team. And you can read the rest of that quote on his Twitter page. Shady McCoy, your

teammates were Rob Garnkowski. What was he like as a teammate? Oh, Grop is super cool. Super

funny man. Love the work hard. Never a dull moment. He kept it the guys just happy, right? He's

always making jokes, man. And he teammates like that guys that go to back to work hard, no play

hard, but also lighting mood up a little bit, you know, because every, every moment of football

can't just be about X and O's, right? We're teammates, you know, we eat lunch together. We talk about,

you know, life experiences off the field. Grop is an A plus on teammate, you know, and happy

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