“You know, everyone keeps asking me, ‘Did Tom (Brady) get you to Tampa?’ Well, of course it didn’t hurt that Tom went to Tampa, you know, and the opportunity to go to Tampa was there too,” he said. “But you know, Tom was like the appetizer, and then there’s a few other reasons. I love the weather, but the main course, the main reason why I came down to Tampa to play is because my mother live two hours away.

Gronk getting bonus points for crediting his mother. 

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