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Related: About this forumRob Gronkowski hasn't spent a penny of the $16.3 million in NFL salary he has made in his career
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rob-gronkowski-hasnt-spent-penny-200150156.htmlPeter King of theMMQB.com posted some excerpts from Gronkowski's upcoming autobiography, "It's Good to be Gronk." Among those excerpts was this tidbit on Gronk's thriftiness:
"To this day, I still havent touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and havent blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school."...
However, that changed after his second season in the league when he signed a six-year, $54.0 million contract with an $8.0 million signing bonus, and yet it sounds like Gronk is still living like an underpaid rookie.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)he is huge.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)DinahMoeHum
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. . .because he realizes his NFL career could end permanently (and sooner than desired) with one more bad injury.
He's planning for a life after and beyond football. Too many of his peers don't do that.
ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)Living like a normal guy, who will have money to live comfortably forever because he doesn't spend it frivolously. Pretty mature for a guy who ever thinks is just a party animal.
ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)Living like a normal guy, who will have money to live comfortably forever because he doesn't spend it frivolously. Pretty mature for a guy who everybody thinks is just a party animal.
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)NFL players are THE most underpaid professional athletes on the planet given the damage that they do their bodies.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Come on, one would think he's not a real football player without those!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)....and live off their salary. That way they could have something left when they're done w/ football. He said his advice usually fell upon deaf ears.