Gronk needs an off-season chaperone

[Frezo]

Some are conflating the party hearty issue with the player safety issue. I for one and I think most here agree that it matters not to us how he parties. Just concerned about alleged slamming of the arm while partying.

I was a very different person than Gronk at age 23 but I get a smile on my face hearing about his antics.

From age 20 to 25 I was like him and can relate at least in a small way. For those 5 years I was a roady for my first two rock bands. We were crazies, but nothing was more important than a successful show and all it took get there. The rest of the time, there were 4 of us in the crew, we were total Gronks. There were countless wild women, booze, drugs, (it was the 70s), fighting, brawling and of course rock & roll. We never got arrested for anything or got in trouble, but we lived life our way and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. If Gronk were here I'd tell him:

"Hey, do what you want to. Live life how you want to live it and don't listen to people that want you to play by their standards. Grab life by the horns and keep swinging it around your head. Someday you'll be 40 and the NFL will take it all away because you won't be able to lift one of your arms higher than your shoulder, your knees won't work right, or God forbid, you won't remember the way home. So have your fun now. You ARE Gronk...BE Gronk while you still can."

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

If Gronk were here I'd tell him:

"Hey, do what you want to. Live life how you want to live it and don't listen to people that want you to play by their standards. Grab life by the horns and keep swinging it around your head. Someday you'll be 40 and the NFL will take it all away because you won't be able to lift one of your arms higher than your shoulder, your knees won't work right, or God forbid, you won't remember the way home. So have your fun now. You ARE Gronk...BE Gronk while you still can."

All kidding and typical snide remarks aside, I sincerely hope that he and his peers do not suffer such marked effects from their career. Needing knee replacements in your 50s is probably to be expected but hopefully that's about it.

 

[Sweft]

hello.....the season is OVER

was gronk ever late for a meeting
has gronk ever done anything 'wrong' when there was a game that needed to be played?

This is exactly what I was talking about. How can it be good for team morale to have Gronk celebrating with the owners and not being on the sideline with the team? Do you think the other players didn't see that? I wonder if they were happy. Do you think the Ravens didn't see it? I bet they fed off this and probably said look how arrogant they are.

Either you're part or the team or not. Trade him.

 

[ausbacker]

From age 20 to 25 I was like him and can relate at least in a small way. For those 5 years I was a roady for my first two rock bands. We were crazies, but nothing was more important than a successful show and all it took get there. The rest of the time, there were 4 of us in the crew, we were total Gronks. There were countless wild women, booze, drugs, (it was the 70s), fighting, brawling and of course rock & roll. We never got arrested for anything or got in trouble, but we lived life our way and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. If Gronk were here I'd tell him:

"Hey, do what you want to. Live life how you want to live it and don't listen to people that want you to play by their standards. Grab life by the horns and keep swinging it around your head. Someday you'll be 40 and the NFL will take it all away because you won't be able to lift one of your arms higher than your shoulder, your knees won't work right, or God forbid, you won't remember the way home. So have your fun now. You ARE Gronk...BE Gronk while you still can."

As a professional athlete there's a small window where you can be a "young idiot" before the grind sets back in. Whilst I respect that Gronk should be looking after his arm I also sympathise that there's a short period of time where football comes second to having fun.

 

[Joker]

From age 20 to 25 I was like him and can relate at least in a small way. For those 5 years I was a roady for my first two rock bands. We were crazies, but nothing was more important than a successful show and all it took get there. The rest of the time, there were 4 of us in the crew, we were total Gronks. There were countless wild women, booze, drugs, (it was the 70s), fighting, brawling and of course rock & roll. We never got arrested for anything or got in trouble, but we lived life our way and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. If Gronk were here I'd tell him:

"Hey, do what you want to. Live life how you want to live it and don't listen to people that want you to play by their standards. Grab life by the horns and keep swinging it around your head. Someday you'll be 40 and the NFL will take it all away because you won't be able to lift one of your arms higher than your shoulder, your knees won't work right, or God forbid, you won't remember the way home. So have your fun now. You ARE Gronk...BE Gronk while you still can."

From age 18 to 45 I was WORSE than Gronk...and you too, Frezo.....one night in Long Island after a Ramones gig I worked at, I sat back stage with Joey ,Dee Dee and Phil and an agent for their label and ...well...look, this place was huge..My Father's Place...we had access to all the beer and booze we wanted from the walkins...and of course the perfunctory mirror with mountains of magic marching flakes...let's see, the joint closed at 2 a.m. we all left about 4 or 5 p.m. the next day...I had another gig to set up in Baltimore...sleep????...WTF was THAT back then???

 

[Tunescribe]

From age 18 to 45 I was WORSE than Gronk...and you too, Frezo.....one night in Long Island after a Ramones gig I worked at, I sat back stage with Joey ,Dee Dee and Phil and an agent for their label and ...well...look, this place was huge..My Father's Place...we had access to all the beer and booze we wanted from the walkins...and of course the perfunctory mirror with mountains of magic marching flakes...let's see, the joint closed at 2 a.m. we all left about 4 or 5 p.m. the next day...I had another gig to set up in Baltimore...sleep????...WTF was THAT back then???

From 18 to 45. So, how was it at age 46 you concluded that drunken display behavior was beneath your dignity?

 

[JarOfMayo51]

The bruins benched Seguin last year because he was late to a meeting and there were rumors that he was partying too much and needed to be talked to.

ummm, Gronk has never been late for a meeting and has never been in trouble with the team for disciplinary reasons... Both times TMZ has caught Gronk with his shirt off was right after the NFL season was over, not during the season. During the season he is 100% committed to football and the team.. and his performance on the field speaks for itself. You're trying to blame the actions of some hockey player on Gronk.. He isn't that guy.. he isn't out partying during the season and hurting the team... He waits until its his offseason to do that, like he should.

It's pretty easy for an athlete to get sidetracked.

Sidetracked? What evidence at all suggests that Gronkowski is getting "sidetracked" from his responsibilities as a football player? Show me ONE example of him being "sidetracked" that has affected his football career.

Using an example of him partying with friends AFTER the season has finished and all players get to go on vacation and do whatever they want is laughable. This is his time off, this is his time to go drink and have fun with his friends, to go to a club and take his shirt off and dance like an idiot.. This small window of time after the season ends and the new season grind begins... and you take one 45 second video of him having some fun with friends, not doing anything illegal mind you, as a reason to suggest that hes not dedicated to the team and is out of control?

Just like last year when he was jumping up and down on the leg that he injured. Just really not a good thing to do.

It was a high ankle sprain!!! He came back into the AFCCG and played on it! He played in the Super Bowl! He was playing on that ankle in the most physically demanding sport there is and then you think that him hopping around while hes dancing is going to be the straw that broke the camels back?

Plus if you want to stay in peak physical shape, drinking alot of alcohol doesn't help out with that.

So now Gronk isn't in "peak physical shape"? The season is OVER! Players do get a vacation you know... and an athletes vacation im sure includes a lot of working out too. Him drinking some beers with his buddies during his OFFSEASON at 23 years old is not going to do anything to him.. Once the lull time is over, they go back into grind mode and start hitting the gym harder.. Again, show me ONE piece of evidence that has suggested that Gronk has shown up to camp out of shape. Just 1. Its funny because most when I hear people describe him its usually like "freak of nature" or "beast"..

But some of the homers on this board won't see any problems with his actions until he gets in physical or legal trouble, then will all of a sudden turn on him and act like he's the worst human possible.

Homers? You're blaming him for stuff that hasn't happened yet! You just think its going to happen in your little theoretical universe, but he hasn't gotten himself into any physical trouble, he hasn't go himself into any legal trouble.. EVER! Yet you crucify him as if he has, or as if you can see into your crystal ball that hes going to do it in the future.

We are so lucky to have a player like Gronkowksi.. If he was a free agent, every single fan base in the NFL would be screaming for him.. and every single GM and Head Coach would be lining up 7 course dinners, private jets and limousines just to get him to consider signing there.

Don't even kid yourself. Gronk is a freak of nature and god forbid he has a personality and likes to enjoy himself! According to most on this board, he should just become a boring stay at home gentleman and give up on ever doing anything fun again in his life because he plays in the NFL.

He knows when its Yo Soy Fiesta time and he knows when its time to grind away and play some football. This is HIS time, not the Patriots.

 

[Joker]

nope...when I was 45, I swore off everything except big chested blondes....within a month of going completely straight I was diagnosed with cancer, had a stroke, had another stroke, tore a bicep and went blind for a few days from anesthesia.

The doctors told me it was a quid pro quo...I told them Latin was a dead language...they replied ..."well, you sure aren't but you will be if you act like a teenager again"...little do they know I've circumvented their pernicious plan to keep me in check...by my membership here I've found a way around their puny attempt to keep the puerile, 18 year old inside on ice....so doc, if you're reading this...IT AIN'T ME, BABE!

 

[Frezo]

As a professional athlete there's a small window where you can be a "young idiot" before the grind sets back in. Whilst I respect that Gronk should be looking after his arm I also sympathise that there's a short period of time where football comes second to having fun.

Well put. Once I hit 27 or so the parties weren't the same. It was just the same old, same old and it got harder and harder to duplicate the rush of the first 5 years. Gronk will likely run into a similar wall. Can you imagine what it must be like to suddenly find yourself in your early 20s with a million dollars, all dressed up and every place to go? He'll be fine.

 

[JarOfMayo51]

Listen im sick of Gronk. Is this gonna be another year we hear his name more in the offseason then during the season? See the things you people are saying "oh he is young let him have fun" and more garbage is not true. Now see i can go out run around all ****ed with my shirt off cause there aint no billionaire company investing in me(but i wouldnt cause im a fattie). While this bag of tools is getting all boozed up and wrestling with a broken arm you got Ahern who is actually trying to get better. I would love to see them trade this overrated pos or maybe switch contracts with Ahern. Cause one of them deserve the big money and its not the one who got it imo.

lol worst post ever and worst GM prospect ever

 

[Tunescribe]

nope...when I was 45, I swore off everything except big chested blondes....within a month of going completely straight I was diagnosed with cancer, had a stroke, had another stroke, tore a bicep and went blind for a few days from anesthesia.

The doctors told me it was a quid pro quo...I told them Latin was a dead language...they replied ..."well, you sure aren't but you will be if you act like a teenager again"...little do they know I've circumvented their pernicious plan to keep me in check...by my membership here I've found a way around their puny attempt to keep the puerile, 18 year old inside on ice....so doc, if you're reading this...IT AIN'T ME, BABE!

You mean, small- and medium-chested blondes aren't on your radar?

 

[JarOfMayo51]

As a professional athlete there's a small window where you can be a "young idiot" before the grind sets back in. Whilst I respect that Gronk should be looking after his arm I also sympathise that there's a short period of time where football comes second to having fun.

Excellent post, basically summed up my entire lengthy rant in a few sentences.


This is Gronk's tiny window to get together with family and friends and go "Yo Soy Fiesta" it up all night long. The window to do this is going to be closed soon, then its back to the grind stone, working his ass off every single day and he will only be able to dream at night of the next time he gets to take his shirt off and dance like an idiot.

 

[Frezo]

From age 18 to 45 I was WORSE than Gronk...and you too, Frezo.....one night in Long Island after a Ramones gig I worked at, I sat back stage with Joey ,Dee Dee and Phil and an agent for their label and ...well...look, this place was huge..My Father's Place...we had access to all the beer and booze we wanted from the walkins...and of course the perfunctory mirror with mountains of magic marching flakes...let's see, the joint closed at 2 a.m. we all left about 4 or 5 p.m. the next day...I had another gig to set up in Baltimore...sleep????...WTF was THAT back then???

Oh boy! The stories we could tell. Glad you made through it all. I did house at the Casino in Hampton Beach in the late 80s. That was the last hurrah for crazy partying. The door closed.

 

[Joker]

You mean, small- and medium-chested blondes aren't on your radar?

Tunes..I've crossed that line in life where the rule now stands as ...eighteen to eighty...blind...crippled..crawling..will take on any and all comers...I just wish all me exes lived in Texas...cuz then they wouldn't be so inclined to call me up and put the arm on me everytime a new shoe style comes out...heh...I'm still a saucker for a sob story...

 

[Joker]

Oh boy! The stories we could tell. Glad you made through it all. I did house at the Casino in Hampton Beach in the late 80s. That was the last hurrah for crazy partying. The door closed.

yeah...I musta ran across you more than a few times then...I worked downtown Providence in the 80's...Lupo's Heartache(Headbreak) Hotel...I actually threw Cheetah Chrome of the Dead boys right out the front doors on his azz...what a jagoff...tried to urinate on the sound board.

 

[Frezo]

yeah...I musta ran across you more than a few times then...I worked downtown Providence in the 80's...Lupo's Heartache(Headbreak) Hotel...I actually threw Cheetah Chrome of the Dead boys right out the front doors on his azz...what a jagoff...tried to urinate on the sound board.

I only went into Lupo's once and can't remember with who. Did a lot of stuff at PPAC with the local boys in the 90s and 00s and mixed the RI Philharmonic at their outdoor shows for 20 years. You know Bill Bracket? He was the TD at PPAC for a long time.

Oh yeah...I got long hair, beard, handlebar mustache and smoke a pipe. Ring a bell?

 

[Joker]

I got long hair, beard, handlebar mustache and smoke a pipe. Ring a bell?

heh heh heh....

 

[Frezo]

No, that's not me! Nice try though. You crack me up.

 

[Pewsterbaby]

From age 18 to 45 I was WORSE than Gronk...and you too, Frezo.....one night in Long Island after a Ramones gig I worked at, I sat back stage with Joey ,Dee Dee and Phil and an agent for their label and ...well...look, this place was huge..My Father's Place...we had access to all the beer and booze we wanted from the walkins...and of course the perfunctory mirror with mountains of magic marching flakes...let's see, the joint closed at 2 a.m. we all left about 4 or 5 p.m. the next day...I had another gig to set up in Baltimore...sleep????...WTF was THAT back then???

And yet 3 1/3 weeks ago, there you were chastising me for jokingly making the suggestion a poster take a bag of dope for his pregame jitters when he asked people for advice on how to stay calm while watching Pats playoff games.
Hypocrite.

And notice how I purposely left out the "h" word, used the term "bag of dope" instead, and you came over to ask,"Heroin jokes? Really?"

Nobody typed the name of the substance implied by the term "bag of dope". I purposely avoided it. The non-serious suggestion of "Oh, if you're nervous, go take a bag a' dope" works. It's edgy wisenheimer humor. While at the same time, "go do some heroin" isn't taken in the same context. The imagery for each is different. "Bag a' dope" is wayy less insidious than the word heroin.

Yet, you took it upon yourself to play June Cleaver decency police, switched my "bag of dope" and painted me as throwing around the word heroin and trying to insert it into a joke.
I didn't use the word "herion", YOU did. YOU came over here and threw it around. And the thing is, you KNEW I purposely avoided it, jagoff.

Well fine, I'll do the same to you. Gee, most of the time in life you don't get equal restitution opportunities like this. Boy, talk about cut and dry tit-for-tat payback...

Hey everybody, when Joker typed "mountains of magic marching flakes" he really meant cocaine.

Hey Joker, making cocaine references? Really?
And doing cocaine and staying up all night wired?


There ya go, hypocrite. We're even now. Now I'll go listen to my Ramones My Father's Place WLIR radio broadcast tape from 1979 in your honor.

 

[IllegalContact]

nope...when I was 45, I swore off everything except big chested blondes....within a month of going completely straight I was diagnosed with cancer, had a stroke, had another stroke, tore a bicep and went blind for a few days from anesthesia.

The doctors told me it was a quid pro quo...I told them Latin was a dead language...they replied ..."well, you sure aren't but you will be if you act like a teenager again"...little do they know I've circumvented their pernicious plan to keep me in check...by my membership here I've found a way around their puny attempt to keep the puerile, 18 year old inside on ice....so doc, if you're reading this...IT AIN'T ME, BABE!

I stopped tripping when Jerry Garcia died........doobage is still a savior, though