Rob Gronkowski has said before that he’d rather have a concussion than a crippling knee injury. He doubled down on that claim during a Jim Rome on Showtime interview, and explained a little more thoroughly why that is the case.
It was classic Gronk.
“Uh, so if we’re sitting here and I had choose would I want a concussion right now or my knee blown out, I’m going to say a concussion. Why would I want to sit there for eight months and not do anything, when with a concussion I’ll just wake up and I’ll be ready to go again.
Gronk isn’t worried about not remembering things later in life because “that happens all the time. I don’t even know how I got to my hotel last night.”
Somehow I don’t doubt that. And I love it.
Gronkowski should use every single ounce of his mental capacity on playing football and partying. Anything else is a total waste of his resources.
And it’s not like it’s a big problem if he forgets where he’s staying. Someone, man or woman, will gladly take him in — for vastly different reasons.
One wonders, though, why he forgets where he’s supposed to lay his sweet head. I’m not going to say alcohol clouds one’s judgement, but alcohol definitely clouds one’s judgement (and short-term memory).
In a weird way, I’m not worried about growing old myself. I can handle that.
But if Gronk ever loses his youthful exuberance and becomes a cranky old geezer, that’s going to be a soul-crushing transformation to witness.
Stay young, big guy. Stay young and forgetful forever.
[H/T: Eye on Football]