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tampatom12 · 8 days

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Reporter Casey Phillips: So you and Gronk got your 90th touchdown connection against Atlanta [Tom: Yeah!], which puts you second all time in the NFL. Why is he the guy you have this connection with?

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Tom Brady: He's hard not to have a connection with...he's so easy to like, be his teammate, to throw the ball to 'im, from a quarterback aspect. Just like, the connection we had since the beginning of our relationship, you know what I mean? He got picked when he was pretty young to come play together with me in New England and I think that position [the tight end] is so like, critical to the success of a quarterback because that throw to him is always available; you know, he's always a tough matchup to defend and then you put his incredible athletic ability and athleticism, uh, his speed; all the things that matter, but then there's an intellectual part that people don't see because they always think that Gronk is soft all the time but Gronk is a very very smart player, [and] person; he has very high awareness of everything, so we've been able to play together for a long time and do some really great things together and ummm...he just continues to blow me away. I mean, with all the stuff that he does as a player and how I seen him like, you know, go from a 20-year-old, 21 year-old kid to now, you know, he's just...he's so mature, [is] such a professional and...he LOVES football. He loves playin' and competin'. I think we're all...this team loves him as they should because he's just an amazing guy.

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Tom Brady talking about his Relationship with Rob Gronkowski // via the Tampa Bay Buccaneers YouTube Channel // Sunday, December 19th, 2021

#YES I realize that these are photos of them from their Patriot days and this quote is from their Tampa Bay era!!!#The quote fits with the images though and is a testament to how long they've been *like that*!!!!!! 🤩😍🔥💯💗💞#I wrote down what Tom said verbatim!!!#He loves Rob so SO much and SO deeply...#Excuse me while I go scream and cry and bang on a wall!!!!!!!!!#They are GOALS fr FR!!!!!!!#And now commentary on the last picture:#They are MARRIED ok; like the way they're holding on to each other and literally in each other's personal space?!?!?!?!#PLEASSSSEEEEE 🥺🥹😭🤧💗💓💞❣️❣️#Even in the first two pictures you can EASILY TELL how they're just in their own little world together despite all of the cameras and other #people around them!!!!!!!#I wanna know who took these photos 👀🧐🕵🏻‍♀️...what did they see that isn't on camera?!#Alright...that's all for now <3 #(((Anyway...!!)))#Tom Brady #Rob Gronkowski #New England Patriots #Tampa Bay Buccaneers #Tom/Rob #Rob/Tom #Gronkady #TB12 #RG87 #throwback!!#babes #love

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youngeditor1999 · 1 year

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Only the softest of high-fives verging on the edge of hand holding for the NFL's most dynamic duo. 💞🥺😭🤧💗

#Tom Brady #Rob Gronkowski #TB 12 #RG 87 #Tampa Bay Buccaneers #THE BOYS <3 #Bad Boys for Life #Gronkady #Bestie Goals #Bromance Goals #TB12 #RG87 #Florida Men #I love them SO MUCH your honor (':#And they clearly love each other too (': <3 #babes!!!!!#love

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toni-peperoni · 24 days

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So what if I just came up with the last paragraph to a Raumy lovers to enemies to strangers fic because my brain decided working on 20 pieces at the same time is a good idea again huh? What if I just almost made myself sob?

#motogp #rf25 #rg87 #toni writes

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clickworld-leap-blog · 5 years

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#motogp #onexox #rg87 #onexoxtkkrsag #p2 #moto2 #tkkrsag #nocontract #xox #unlimited #dealer #business #partner #passiveincome #parttime #fulltime

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1paulinarivas · 5 years

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PATS NATION REPPIN’ #GoPats #GoPatriots #TB12 #JE11 #RG87 #AFCChampionship #OnToKansas LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🏈♥️💙🙌 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs3627egHwXUrCvew-ORSjQdMEY2JrXIw_FObU0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1scc99dk0r62d

#gopats #gopatriots #tb12 #je11 #rg87 #afcchampionship #ontokansas

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zatalia · 9 years

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I feel empty and its all because of rob gronkowski

#rob gronkowski #gronk #new england #rg87

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tampatom12 · 3 months

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“We actually met each other off the field at an autograph signing,” Gronkowski recalled. “From there, that night we went out together and that's when we officially really became wingmen for life, when I was 21 years old. We went to a club called Splash. I was dancing all over the place. Julian was being Julian, and that's when our friendship and our wingman-type of style hit it off together.” -Rob Gronkowski to People magazine about how he and Julian Edelman's friendship began // Thursday, January 4th, 2024

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michelle022477 · 7 years

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It's game day!!!!!!!! SO excited❤🏈💙🏈 #PatsNation #TB12 #Goat #DA80 #JE11 #RG87 #LetsGOOO

#patsnation #da80 #letsgooo #rg87 #je11 #tb12 #goat

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tampatom12 · 3 months

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"2024 is off to a hot start"

Julian Edelman sharing a few Behind the Scenes photos via Instagram // Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

#Julian Edelman #Rob Gronkowski #Danny Amendola #2010s Patriots #best friends #retired life #Also featuring Julian's dog Rocky #JE11 #RG87 #DA80 #tampatom12.posts #babes #love

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tampatom12 · 3 months

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Always nice catching up with old friends 🌴 // Mom can @RobGronkowski sleep over?

🌞🤍😎 Julian Edelman talking about Rob Gronkowski on Twitter in 2022 😎🤍🌞

#Julian Edelman #JE11 #Rob Gronkowski #RG87 #New England Patriots #Bestie goals #partners for life #Julian/Rob #Rob/Julian #Twitter 2022 #Y'all Tom is in a picture in the background of the first photo!!!#Anyway these two are as in love with each other as they are with Tom 🥺🥹😭🤧😍🥰💗💞💓#throwback photos #tampatom12.posts #babes #love

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tampatom12 · 3 months

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your top 5 favorite Gronkady moments?

Anon, this question was both extremely easy and also extremely hard to answer!!!!

Each of these moments means so much to me. They define who they are to each other and furthermore, show how much they truly love one another. 🥺🥹🤧💞

But first, before I get into the moments...!!

If you're new here to my blog or to the NFL fandom in general and don't understand the term "Gronkady":

Gronkady is the ship name for Rob "Gronk" Gronkowski and Tom Brady, two people who used to play for the New England Patriots and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

As you will see below, their history together is legendary!!

Now, onto the moments themselves. 🤩🥳🔥💯💥

I have decided to start with number five and count backwards to my ultimate Tom and Rob moment.

I also have four other bonus moments in mind that are just as important, but simply didn't make the Top Five overall...let me know if y'all wanna find out what those are!!

So now, without further ado, here are my

Top Five Gronkady Moments!!!!

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5). The first time they met!

Rob has told this story multiple times to a variety of sources over the years and he always tells it the same way:

He was in the locker room, taping up his ankle. Tom came over to him, held out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Tom."

Instead of saying, "Yeah, I know," or worse, not saying anything at all, Rob said back, "And I'm Rob! Nice to meet you, man!"

This simple interaction between them may not seem like much, but it was the conversation that stated it all, even though at this point, they still had to formally begin building their relationship on and off the field.

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4). Rob's video edit/tribute that he posted back when Tom retired for the first time!

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This video contains so many wonderful highlights of the public time that they spent together!!

It also features key but underrated moments between them. (Like when Rob says hi to Tom when he's in the parade and is *so* happy that Tom got number six!)

Additionally, it a visual representation of what their bond has been like over the years!

PLUS!!!

The entire thing is set to Queen's "You're My Best Friend"!!!!!

Here it is for you to see for yourself on Rob's Insta page and here it is on YouTube.

(((I highly recommend looking at his caption on the Insta post!! ⬇️)))

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3). The time that they were at a Boston Red Sox game together!

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This short clip is so damn chaotic in the best possible way. It is simply SO. THEM. through and through!!

We also got this amazing photo out of that specific day!! :D🥺🥹🤧😍🥰

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2). BAD BOYS FOR LIFE!!

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One of the things that I think about the most when it comes to iconic couples is how they all seem to have a little catch-phrase that is theirs and theirs alone.

For Tom and Rob, this catch-phrase is Bad Boys for Life.

It all started back in 2019 for the 2018 season after the Patriots won the NFC championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Tom posted this to his Insta page and though I didn't see it when he first posted it because I wasn't at all a fan of his, when I did finally see it, something about it changed me. Them being all showboaty but also silly *and* alone yet together like this is the stuff that fanfics get written about. 💗💓💞

And real quick, just to clarify, "alone yet together" means that they weren't around anyone else in that video but that they were still together as a couple!!

✨Anyway, now that that's cleared up welcome back to the feature presentation!!:✨

So furthermore, the chosen song and it's lyrics are super important for that moment.

Aside from the key one of "Bad Boy for Life", there's also "We ain't goin' nowhere; we can't be stopped now".

Realistically, I know that this is a reference to the entire team and how they all can't be stopped now/aren't going anywhere now that they have won everything except for the Super Bowl at that point.

However, it is worth reading into and noting that Tom and Rob are the only ones who made a video like this.

They could have chosen anyone else to do that with and yet...!!! They decided to exclusivelymake that video with each other. (((Insert the screeching cat emoji, AHHHHHHHH emoji, all the Kermit heart emojis here)))

Not only that, but it is important to me to note that Tom is the one who is holding the phone/camera and is doing the recording. He clearly *wanted* to be in that moment, making a firm memory of his time and opportunity with Rob.

Of course the editing/song part of it all came later, but I don't feel like Tom would have let his social media people choose that song if he didn't feel that it fully fit the moment. He wanted that song to be a part of their legacy just as much as he wanted the world to see them together like how they are within that video.

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They remade it in 2021!! 🤩🥳🔥💯🙌🏻💞:

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✨✨So now, the moment you all have been waiting for...

Here is my ULTIMATE Gronkady moment!!!✨✨

1). Absolutely everything about them together Tampa!!

As I'm sure all of you can tell based on my url alone, I LOVE the Tampa version of Tom SO MUCH.

I've said this before but I don't care; I'm sayin' it again:

Tom was very much a difference person in Tampa than what he had been in New England. His work ethic and overall beliefs/philosophies were the same, BUT he also began to show the public more of his true, easy-going personality from the moment that he arrived in Tampa. He clearly felt free to have more fun than what he ever had before and he wasn't afraid to show it.

And it's not like he didn't have lots of fun in New England because I know that he did.

But there was just something about him moving to a year-round sunshine-filled climate that set off who he had secretly been all along and who he wanted to be moving forward.

Basically, he still worked hard and had just as much fun in Tampa as what he had in New England, but Tampa offered him up a new chance to be more easy-going and super goofy at times!!

✨All of that having been said, to get back into the Gronkady of it all:✨

As we all (probably) know, Rob retired for the first time in 2019, after he and the Patriots had won the 2019 Super Bowl for the 2018 season. He left New England and went on to do retired football guy things while Tom suffered through one of the Patriots worst years ever.

Now, fast forward to March of 2020. Tom has announced that he's leaving New England and is going to, out of all of the teams within the NFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

A month later, in April of 2020, Rob announces that he is officially coming out of retirement to play with Tom on the Buccaneers.

Alright, and now...

This is the part of the story that everyone still isn't so sure about because both men have had conflicting takes on it.

Not conflicting bad, just conflicting in the sense that for some reason, they don't want the public to find out the behind-the-scenes details of what was really said between them.

They want to keep that part of it private/to themselves, and as much as the nosy person in me needs to know what went down for real, I also completely respect them saving a part of this story just for themselves. 🥺🥹🤧💗

All of the above having been said...!!

While the main theory about how they reunited is still up for debate, what many think to have happened is that Tom asked Rob to come back and play with him. Did they have discussions between each other about all of this beforehand? Probably. Will we, the general public, ever know for sure if this was the case? Most likely not.

At the end of the day, the bottom line is this:

Rob was fully in retirement, happy to be free of all of the responsibilities that come with being an active NFL player, when all of a sudden, his non-brother best friend and bad boy partner for life decides to leave New England and head south.

No matter how it happened or what they may or may not talked about before hand, Rob literally came. out. of. retirement (!!!!!!!!!!!) just so that he could play football with Tom again. 🥺🥹😭🤧😍🥰🧡🤍

Why else would he have done that if he wasn't at least a little bit in love with Tom?!

The game had always been very hard on Rob's body; he had so many injuries throughout the first part of his career. 😔😥

By all means, it would have made sense for him to simply stay retired while rooting Tom on from the sidelines.

But he didn't. He wanted to reunite with "the only quarterback he ever wanted to play for" in a place that was far away from New England, both geographically as well as culturally.

Them reuniting in Tampa proves how deep their bond is and how much they admire, trust and respect each other.

Additionally, aside from playing together again, they got to make some extremely cute and fun videos together!!!

This video series are a big reason that got me to see and understand Tom and Rob as more than "Tom Brady (™️)" and "Rob 'GRONK!' Gronkowski".

It is important that they agreed to make this video series in the first place and is a true testament to their commitment to have fun and be free with each other in their new home. 🥺🥹🤧💞

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So there you have it!!

My Top Five Gronkady Moments!!!! 🤩🥰🥳🔥💯💥🙌🏻💗

I hope that this gives you a good idea of what Tom and Rob are all about and how much they mean to each other!! :D

Also, thank you so much for your patience!!! I received this ask back in November and meant to answer it then but then got distracted by other life things. 😔

I definitely appreciate that you asked about them though, as it has given me an opportunity to talk about some of my favorite people!!! 💞

So once again, thank you, anon!!

We can definitely talk more sometime if you want to!! ☺️