Rob Gronkowski Shades Denver Broncos With Crude Joke Before AFC Title Game

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/rob-gronkoswki-shades-denver-broncos-204024590.html

Trash talk is part of the game of football, but New England Patriots’ star Rob Gronkowski might have gone too far when dissing the Denver Broncos. Ahead of their Jan. 24 AFC championship game, Rob threw some pretty crude shade towards his opponents. Click to see.

Rob Gronkowski, 26, knows that to win a Super Bowl, you have to get into your opponent’s head. But the New England Patriots’ tight end got pretty gross when he blasted his AFC Champions opponents, the Denver Broncos. Does Gronk now owe someone an apology?

Gronk was chatting with the Pats Nation on Jan. 19, ahead of the Jan. 24 game. One Pats fan said she “heard the (Broncos) are gunna hit Rob Gronkowski in the knees to bring him down, @Patriots be careful. Don’t wanna see him hurt again!” While Rob seemed to appreciate the concern, his response about the Broncos wasn’t so heartwarming: “Heard their whole team is good at giving low blows.”

Uh, yeah. Gronk’s quasi-homophobic insult aside, he has some legit beef with Denver over its defensive strategy. When the Pats faced off against Denver on Nov. 29, Rob had to be carted off the field after defender Darian Stewart — surprise, surprise — hit him low. Gronk’s right knee whipped to the back and the right after colliding with Darian. While this wasn’t an initial thought to be a dirty hit, Gronk might be on his guard going into the division championship game.

[joeybee12]

1. low blow commonly means to insult

The author of this piece is an asshole

[El Supremo]

3. Yes, it's a from boxing.

But he said "giving" instead of "making".

[El Supremo]

2. One of these people is a jerk...

the other one is Rob Gronkowski.

[bluedigger]

4. This is crap.

Nothing in Gronk's remarks indicates anything that should be construed as homophobia. Low blows derives from boxing and is nothing more than another phrase for cheap shot. Something the author of this tripe should well know about.

[El Supremo]

5. Yeah, sure. >>>

Q: Are you surprised your tweet from earlier in the week received so much attention?

RG: No, I was just having a little fun with it, hoping to get a little laughs, which I think it did. It’s just all fun and games with that.

Q: Did you want to elaborate on it any more than Twitter’s 140 characters allows you to?

RG: No, I’m good.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2016/01/21/they-said-it-rob-gronkowski-talks-about-low-hits-his-tweet-and-playing-in-denver/37341/

[bluedigger]

6. You get something homophobic out of that?

[El Supremo]

7. Yup. I sure do. But don't worry. It shows that Gronk has some intelligence by making a pun.

“Heard their whole team is good at giving low blows.”

[Iggo]

8. Cheating at football is just cheating at football.

Homophobia is a character flaw.