Rob Gronkowski is amused by all the speculation about him this week.
The former NFL star set Twitter on fire Wednesday with a three-word tweet: “I’m kinda bored.”
I’m kinda bored 😐…
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) December 21, 2022
The message started rumors that Gronkowski was preparing to return to the NFL six months after his second retirement from football. Speculation ran wild. Had former teammate Tom Brady called him? How soon could he be ready?
Fans aren’t the only ones who bit on the Gronk bait. Gronkowski even admitted Thursday (via FanDuel) that two teams reached out to him Wednesday. He did not name the teams.
Gronkowski set the record straight Thursday, and the truth is not nearly as exciting as what fans had anticipated. Turns out the tweet was a promotional stunt for FanDuel. Gronkowski announced his partnership with the gambling company Thursday on the “UpAndAdamsShow.”
“Two teams reached out,” Gronkowski said. “It was unbelievable. … It was pretty nuts to me that everybody saw the tweet. It shows how far social media can go and how quick it can travel.
“I barely tweet actually. I’m kind of bored, people took that as I was coming back to football.”
Gronk told @heykayadams that TWO NFL teams reached out to him yesterday 👀@RobGronkowski | @UpAndAdamsShow pic.twitter.com/wXEsnVmawT
— FanDuel (@FanDuel) December 22, 2022
Gronk’s friends even reached out to him.
“It was mind blowing how my agent hit me up and two teams hit me up,” Gronkowski said. “My friends actually were hitting me up too, like ‘Bro, are you really going back to football?'”
Gronkowski said when he told his friends he tweeted just to tease his FanDuel partnership, they said, “You’re a genius.”
“It really wasn’t that big of a play,” he said. “It was just a little tweet.”
