{"id":1525290,"date":"2022-06-21T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525290"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:19:26","slug":"i-gave-it-everything-i-had-super-bowl-legend-rob-gronkowski-announces-hes-retiring-from-nfl-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-gave-it-everything-i-had-super-bowl-legend-rob-gronkowski-announces-hes-retiring-from-nfl-again\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Gave It Everything I Had\u2019: Super Bowl Legend Rob Gronkowski Announces He\u2019s Retiring From NFL Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-gave-it-everything-i-had-super-bowl-legend-rob-gronkowski-announces-hes-retiring-from-nfl-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Super Bowl legend Buccaneers star Rob Gronkowski announced he was retiring once again from the NFL and said he was able to walk away from professional football knowing he \u201cgave it everything I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pro-Bowl 33-year-old tight end of the Tampa Bay team posted a lengthy letter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfE8oI1OhE7\/\">Instagram<\/a> Tuesday about how he dreamed in college about one day being able to play for the Buccaneers, and said the opportunity he had in Tampa Bay for the last two years was more than he ever could have hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn college, I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and where the location would be,\u201d Gronkowski wrote. \u201cEvery time I had to write about my future, no matter what, I picked being a professional football player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor that assignment though, we had to pick the location,\u201d he added. \u201cSo I wrote that I wanted to play in Tampa for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for many reasons, the sunny weather being #1. I completely forgot about writing this report until 2 years ago when I had the opportunity to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And let me tell ya, the journey in Tampa over the last 2 years has blown away what I originally wrote about in college, big time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>           View this post on Instagram                       <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfE8oI1OhE7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Rob Gronkowski (@gronk)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for this, I want to thank the whole entire first class Buccaneers organization for an amazing ride, trusting me to come back to play and help build a championship team,\u201d Gronk continued. \u201cI will now be going back into my retirement home, walking away from football again with my head held high knowing I gave it everything I had, good or bad, every time I stepped out on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his post by noting that the \u201cfriendships and relationships\u201d he made there will last forever. He also wrote about the opportunity he was given to come out of retirement and win another \u201cchampionship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former New England Patriots star previously walked away from professional football briefly in 2018 due to injuries before coming out of retirement to join his old pal Tom Brady, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/34126136\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-te-rob-gronkowski-retiring-nfl-second\">ESPN<\/a> noted. At the time, Brady had left the Patriots and signed with the Buccaneers. The pair ended up leading their team all the way to the Super Bowl and winning, beating the Kansas City Chiefs in February 2021.\u00a0During his career, Gronk won four Super Bowls, three with New England and one with the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on what his next plans will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl legend Buccaneers star Rob Gronkowski announced he was retiring once again from the NFL and said he was able to walk away from professional football knowing he \u201cgave it everything I had.\u201d The Pro-Bowl 33-year-old tight end of the Tampa Bay team posted a lengthy letter on Instagram Tuesday about how he dreamed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1525292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}