Rob Gronkowski: Patriots Tight End Starts Instagram With a Bang

By Dave Martin
Dave Martin
Dave Martin
Dave Martin is a New-York based writer as well as editor. He is the sports editor for the Epoch Times and is a consultant to private writers.
March 30, 2016Updated: March 30, 2016

Rob Gronkowski, the New England Patriots three-time All-Pro tight end, has officially joined Instagram with his first post—a silly video of himself in training, and partying, posted on March 29.

The always-entertaining Gronkowski starts the video on a slide with someone asking him what he’s doing in his offseason. The 6-foot-6, 265-pound Gronkowski (while sitting at the top of a kid’s slide) exclaims,”I’m coming to Instagram!” He then goes down the slide and the video continues with highlights of his training program—as well as him partying it up at a club.

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As of the afternoon of March 30, the minute-long post had over 116,000 likes.

The 26-year-old Gronkowski—who’s already a veteran of six seasons in the NFL—has made four Pro Bowls and is generally considered the best at his position.

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The incredibly agile tight end is coming off perhaps his most impressive performance ever—an eight-catch, 144-yard performance against the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game, in which “Gronk” nearly willed the Pats to a win by himself. In the epic performance, Gronkowski made a pair of fourth-down catches on New England’s final drive, to keep their hopes alive—including a TD catch with 12 seconds remaining, that left the Patriots just a two-point conversion away from tying.

But the Broncos got the defensive stop and went on to win the Super Bowl.