, Fla. -- The Rob Gronkowski-Tom Brady reunion may have become official when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers acquired the star tight end's rights from the New England Patriots on
Tuesday, but the seeds were planted two months ago. Gronkowski said Wednesday
that he linked up with Brady to throw around the football before the quarterback
signed a two-year deal with the Bucs on March 20. It was the first time
Gronkowski had touched a football since he worked out with Brady last year at
UCLA. Brady didn't say at the time where this individual was thinking of
playing, but Gronkowski, who had signed a contract with the WWE after retiring
from soccer a year ago, indicated he might be interested in a return. "We rarely
talked about what his decision was gonna be, where I'm at," Gronkowski said.
"But we did talk about [it] for one second. I told him that -- we talked just
real quick -- like, 'Hey, I'm kinda getting Washington
Redskins Iron On Transfers that fire underneath me again.' "I said, 'I'm
definitely interested in your decision that you make.' I didn't put any pressure
on him. I stated, 'If there's a right opportunity out there, and you go
somewhere and that chance is right -- even if you go back to the Patriots and I
feel like the opportunity is right -- there's a possible chance that I would
definitely love to reconnect.'" Gronkowski said Brady "was all fired up and
juiced up" about the idea. "Playing with Tom is special. He's one of the
greatest quarterbacks of all time," said Gronkowski, who caught 78 touchdown
passes from Brady during their nine years together in New England. "And to build
a connection with a quarterback, too, is something special. "You've seen it many
times with many other players -- they can switch teams, and they might not have
the same chemistry as they'd have with one of their other quarterbacks. So we
have a great chemistry out there. And every time we get together, it's just like
the old days. It doesn't matter if we take a month off or six months apart; we
just go out there and we're throwing the ball just like it's a normal practice,
no matter what." The Bucs will assume the one remaining year on Football
Iron Ons Gronkowski's cope with the Patriots for $10 million. Brady had some
fun with Gronkowski's return in a video he tweeted Wednesday Tennessee
Titans Iron On Transfers morning, blowing a conch shell to call in the
limited end, who ran in and said, "A little tired, but Gronk reporting."