Rob Gronkowski
American football player
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December 31 2024 | Appeared in Las Vegas as a co-host on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. |
October 15 2024 | Gronkowski partnered with Julian Edelman and Assaf Swska to establish Nuthouse Sports (formerly Coast Productions), launching the podcast 'Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules'. |
April 9 2022 | Co-hosted the Kids' Choice Awards with Miranda Cosgrove on Nickelodeon. |
2021 | Gronkowski won the ESPY Award for Outstanding Team with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, highlighting his successful transition to a new team. |
March 2021 | Gronkowski's first NFT card collection sold for $1.2 million. |
2020 | Competed on the third season of The Masked Singer as 'White Tiger', reaching the Super Nine. |
2020 | Gronkowski won the WWE Slammy Award for Celebrity of the Year, showcasing his popularity beyond football. |
October 2020 | ZooTampa at Lowry Park named their newly born greater one-horned rhino 'Gronk' to celebrate Gronkowski joining the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
May 27 2020 | Served as team captain on CBS's sports-based comedy panel game Game On!, which ran for one season. |
April 2020 | Starred with partner Camille Kostek in Kygo's 'I'll Wait' music video. |
2019 | Joined Fox Sports as an NFL analyst during his year-long retirement, making his on-air debut during Fox NFL Thursday. |
2019 | Gronkowski was included in ESPN's 'World Fame 100' list of most famous athletes, with an estimated $8 million in endorsement income for the year. |
2019 | Gronkowski received the USO-Metro Merit Award, recognizing his contributions outside of sports. |
December 31 2019 | Co-hosted Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey in New York. |
August 2019 | Gronkowski publicly credited cannabidiol (CBD) oil for making him pain-free for the first time in a decade and began advocating for its use in sports pain management. |
2018 | During Super Bowl LIII, set a record for catches (23) and yards (297) by a tight end in Super Bowl history, with a crucial 29-yard catch from Tom Brady that set up the game's only touchdown in the Patriots' 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. |
July 2018 | Joined Discovery Channel's Shark Week, helping to tag endangered tiger sharks in The Bahamas. |
June 5 2018 | Returned to practice after skipping minicamp, confirming his commitment to playing in the 2018 season. |
April 24 2018 | Gronkowski announced his return to the New England Patriots for the 2018 season after meeting with head coach Bill Belichick, ending speculation about potential retirement or trade. |
2017 | Appeared in episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons, competed in TBS's Drop the Mic, and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank. |
2017 | Executive produced and hosted Verizon's Go90 original show MVP, which ran for two seasons with 36 episodes. |
2017 | Gronkowski partnered with Tide for a public service announcement discouraging children and teens from eating laundry detergent pods after a viral internet challenge. |
2017 | Gronkowski was named First-team All-Pro and selected to the Pro Bowl for the fifth time in his career. |
2016 | Featured as the cover athlete for Madden NFL 17 video game by EA Sports, showcasing his signature 'Gronk Spike' touchdown celebration. |
2016 | Began co-hosting Crashletes on Nickelodeon, which continued until 2017. |
2016 | Gronkowski and Monster Energy released a signature 'Gronk' beverage distributed by Coca-Cola. |
2015 | Appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in the film Entourage. |
2015 | PLB Sports released 'Gronk's Hot Sauce' following the success of the Gronk Flakes cereal. |
2015 | Gronkowski and his four brothers launched Gronk Fitness, a fitness business selling Gronk-branded gym equipment with partnerships with Life Fitness and Xtreme Monkey. |
2015 | Gronkowski was selected to the Pro Bowl and named First-team All-Pro, continuing his streak of elite performance. |
July 2015 | Rob Gronkowski co-wrote and published his memoir 'It's Good to be Gronk' with Jason Rosenhaus, which became a New York Times Bestseller. |
2014 | Gronkowski was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year, received First-team All-Pro honors, and was selected to the Pro Bowl, demonstrating his return to top performance after injury. |
December 2014 | An erotica novel inspired by him, 'A Gronking To Remember' by Lacey Noonan, was published. |
2012 | PLB Sports began manufacturing 'Gronk Flakes', a frosted cornflakes breakfast cereal named after and endorsed by Gronkowski, with an initial run of 64,800 boxes priced at $3.99 each, available at Stop & Shop supermarkets in New England. |
2011 | Gronkowski was selected to his first Pro Bowl and named First-team All-Pro, marking a significant year in his early NFL career. |
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