Rob Gronkowski said he’d let his son play football, but only if he’s ‘educated’ first
"I will educate him on the game [and] educate him on what I went through."
Will Rob Gronkowski let his future son play football?
The answer is yes, but only if he understands what his father went through while playing the sport. The former Patriots tight end doesn’t have any children, but he told CBS News anchor Reena Ninan on Tuesday that if he did have a son, he’d want him to be educated about football first:
.@RobGronkowski told CBSN’s @reenaninan that he’d let his son play football ––only after educating him about what he went through in the game.
He said he had about “nine surgeries, probably had 20 concussions” playing football. https://t.co/CYw25maOgo pic.twitter.com/dltWn6Y4k2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 12, 2019
“I will let my son play football, but first off, I will educate him on the game [and] educate him on what I went through,” Gronk said. “I truly believe that any injury you receive is fixable though. I went through it, I had nine surgeries, probably had like 20 concussions in my life. No lie, I remember five blackout ones.”
When Ninan pressed him about the seriousness of sports injuries, such as how Gronk said he had internal bleeding after winning the Super Bowl, he reassured her that even with those injuries, he turned out okay.
“Like I said, I’m fixed,” Gronk said with a smile. He seemed to be in good shape while making an appearance at Sunday’s game against the Steelers, where he showed off his chiseled physique and did his signature spike before the 2018 championship banner was unveiled.
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