Highlight Reels: Super Bowl Champs' Stories

We're bringing you another compilation of my favorite stories for games with names.

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Rob Gronkowski on his first super Bowl Memories.

We won the super Bowl.

That's the best part about you.

That was the best part of that year.

That was just the super Bowl Club, bronest after the super Bowl Club.

The first one was pretty special. Fourteen. What are you reading over there, Gronk?

I'm reading your tweet.

I'm sorry, problem my tweet too, Gronk, you look like a fighter.

Hmm.

They say, oh, you play football from the actor from Flash Gordon me Bud, he's the only best tight end. Oh my god.

Oh bro, Sorry, that was a great tweet. That was a great tweet. Yeah, and then.

And then top even I couldn't tackle Gronkowski last night time. You couldn't tackle anyone.

So I.

Actually he had one tackle in his career.

It was pretty nice in any which one the.

One he had.

I gotta do some digging on that.

Oh man, what were you saying though? I was reading, but you were saying something before that.

I don't know. I was trying to read my tweet, but I couldn't read. Oh we were talking about the first one being the sweetest. Oh yeah, oh.

It really was pretty We lost to one versus the Giants in twenty.

Eleven, and if you didn't get hurt, we would have dominated.

They know, man, I.

Know, fucking eli Oh, but it's all.

Right because then we won this one. And once you get in that Super Bowl club, man, that felt good.

Felt that's good.

I mean because you never experienced it exactly, and we were always you know, I was always so sick and tired of hearing about fucking the old Patriots like we exactly because Bill would bring it, you know, Bill would. He was there for so long. You bring up all these cuts. We've seen the same clip of Troy Brown stripping the San Diego Charger in that one. You know, I've seen that clip and marked our era.

Yet the new Patriots era was here.

It was it was good, and they motivated us. Those older guys.

They set the standards. You gotta appreciate the big time. They set the standard.

But I was sick and tired of hearing about Willie mac Teddy Bruski. Yes, because that's Bill would bring it up every day.

He would every day.

And then after this you had to go and win another one. Yes, then you know what I mean.

Just to show them, just to show it was our era.

Matt Light is up next on Super Bowl Locker Rooms.

What's your favorite thing you stole from another stadium?

Like the listen? Is there statue limitations? I mean, I'm not going to jail on your podcast.

No, Like.

That's double Jeopardy, Bro, It's gone. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, it can't be tried twice, there's no way. Gosh, man, the best thing ever? Hey you know so some of my favorite stuff that I have hanging now. We just moved down to Chapatchet, Rhode Island, and in the move I found some stuff that I'd ganged from the Super Bowls. So again I was always the first guy off the field, right. It was like my goal to get to the bar as quickly as possible Bar Louie's baby, and uh, I

Yeah yeah, well we'll get the hotel.

I couldn't stop myself there either, they'd be like hanging off like a big atrium, and I'd find my way up in there and like.

Sink sink, sink, sink, sink up next Cooper Cup on his Rams super Bowl victory.

How was it playing a Super Bowl in your home stadium?

Was it an advantage because you guys got to stay at home and stuff and stay away from like.

What how was that? Cause?

Yeah, I mean it takes away from the experience, but it's also kind of like a baby advantage because you get to be in your own space.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean I slept in my own bed until basically the night before the game, which is a huge ad. Like I love that we were in our own locker room, you know, like it felt it what it did. I was thankful I had been to one before, even though I wasn't playing it. I was I saw how much of a build up there is to the Super Bowl and how much it lends itself. Like even when you're the game's about to start, they don't tell you, like

Just go out there and play your game.

Yeah, I mean, it's got that's kind of an advantage. You get to stay away. You get to have your guys in their own area because half the time there's at least one or two guys that are yeah out past curfew, guy out in Oakland. Raiders went to Mexico. They never came, but like there's always a story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. Yeah, it is nice.

Go ahead.

Teams just have to start, you know, owners of teams just you start paying seven billion dollars to build a stadium and then they can host the Super Bowl and then get to the Super Bowl when it's your turn.

Or you could be an owner and you can have a city pay for your stadium and then have people come to your stadium that you own.

It's a tricky, it's just a tricky, tricky path.

I think you just make the seven billionaires, make the billion yourself and do yourself exactly.

And then next up we've got Danny A. Mondola talking about the aftermath of Super Bowl forty nine.

Tell them the story about how we were after the first super Bowl we won. How we hired that guy to just follow us around with a broom.

I forget the club.

We went to the club in Boston, and uh, we just said give us forty bottles of champagne.

I don't know why.

We just started a spraying echo other. It was kind of fourteen remember fourteen in.

La Yeah, we had started it originated in La at like the beach club. But we go we hired this guy and we got forty bottles of champagne, and uh, they brought him out in a wheelbarrow and then we're like follow us and we just walked. We walked around the whole place and we'd either spray it and then and then bust it. On the ground or just bust

Just like complete destruction.

All were walking down the street wheelbarrow and then a guy with a broom and we were just chugging champagne, spraying it and breaking down.

It was a snowstorm that night.

Yeah, it was reck We started the night by coming off the There is a lady stuck. We got out of the car. Yeah, we just won a Super Bowl. We got out of the car to push her out. Yeah, got the snow. Yeah, some old lady on the bridge. Dude, Yeah, dude, Good Samaritans over here.

She's stuck. Old ladies, Louise.

Now we've got Howie Long on the legends of the nineteen eighty four Raiders Super Bowl team.

Let's get into the Raiders team.

I'm looking at this roster and I go Jim Plunkett, guy who goes to New England, number one pick, Heisman Trophy winner Stanford. He gets a mall. Yeah, I think they might have been the Boston Patriots at that point, Yeah, gets maulled and just gets churned out there. You know, an organization that mismanaged and didn't put the people around him and got beat up. And you know, one of the great deep ball throwers of the time and goes to San Francisco. Same thing, bad experience gets mauled. Doesn't

You know.

Cliff Branch was, if not the fastest guy on the planet, one of the top three four fastest guys on the planet.

Was so fun watching him and Darryl Green play in this fucking matchup because Darryl Green was like the fastest guy in the NFL as well.

Yeah, like that was a fun matchup.

And Cliff was thirty. I think I don't know what he was at the super Bowl. He might have been thirty three man young. I think it's he's thirty five sixty. He could run a four to fourth week. I mean seriously, I lived with a guy named Cedric Hartman, who was a great pass rusher from San Francisco on they called it, I forget what they called that, Jimmy Page, you know,

I mean not really.

I mean we I shared a house with five guys my first three years in my career because you didn't know if you were going to make the team.

Every year.

Yeah, and I'm making my check was one thousand and seven dollars.

Now, we were making decent money. League minimum was like sixty. But I had to used Coop Deville, powder gray.

Spoke wheels, the lo our interior and a truly an eight cassette deck where the cassettes were, you know, that big a.

Track.

Yeah, and uh, you know Cedric had a red El Dorado and convertible with white interior, and we were we were rolling in Oakland, your law best two gab nose guard you could ever play with, Greg Townshend. I think Greg is, you know, is to me a Hall of Famer Lila Alzato, you know, I mean listen, Uh, he can change the attitude of a room really quickly.

How he was such.

A violent you know, the the needle went into the red and he was unpredictable from that standpoint, you know, you based the rest of your day on Hey, good morning, Lyle, you know, and the rest of the day was kind of based on that.

One of the best nicknames I feel like in nfil is three Mile Asle was pretty good, three.

Mile Oile because it was like three Mile Island was a nuclear plant that blew up, and you know, you just never knew when he was gonna.

Blow So was he the team asshole? Who was the team asshole?

So that was kind of quiet I'm trying to think, I'm looking down the Kenny King was, you know, a great back from Oklahoma. Uh situational guy, Frank Hawkins, really good full back Cleo Montgomery, tough, tough, tough. He he dropped the guy on the plane one time on a guy was he didn't he didn't get up and he and he was one of the quietest guys you could ever be around. And this guy just set got in his seat when he went to the bathroom and you

But that's we had a lot of flights like that. That's a real deal.

Next up, Rob Gronkowski on a Super Bowl parade, Memories.

In the game that got us in the Super Bowl club as well, the aftermath just overall everything that whole entire year.

Man, we win the for we win our first Super Bowl in ten years, y'all's first ever.

Our first parade as well. Yeah, let's hear some parades.

Oh my gosh, bro, it was the best party of my life. I've never been to a parade like that in my life.

We got snowed in. Yeah, we did get They had to.

They had change parade date because we had a Nor'easter and we got Yeah we got hammered.

Yeah, we got hammered.

There was fifty beers getting thrown at me at one time, Like you had to get hammered. A little fireball shots shot out just to the city of Boston as well. They know what's up, man, They know how to celebrate. They love the Patriots as well. They loved their sports, so without them as well, the prey would never be the parade without our fans.

Too straight Ferris Bueller's day Off. Literally, that was such a That was the fun. That was so fun.

What was with the Minions hat?

Grink? I'm not sure.

I was leaving my house there was a couple of millions Minions hats on the counter and I just grabbed them.

Yeah.

I was like, man, this goes good with it. Minions. I'm about to have a Minion party, a million and milliion drinks.

Yeah.

Oh dude.

I almost didn't make the Prey because I was passed out in the airport because I went to Jimmy Kill when I went out in LA.

I tried making it back.

I almost didn't make it back and there I was passed out in the airport.

Now we've got ty law on the impact of experience in the Super Bowl.

Do you remember anything different going in this year? Guys? This is your third Super Bowl?

Second, this is you guys lost, No lost my second year, then we won the the Rams.

Yeah, this is so this will be your third Super Bowl appearance.

Right with Did you feel like you had an advantage for Carolina? Carolina?

Do you have an advantage because you guys experience, Yes, experienced it.

Yeah, we thought we had advantage. But at the same time, we were also those guys before you know, you know, on the come up. You know, we came in and and uh, hey we we wanted to win. So just the last game, as you know, playing and uh as many as you've played in man, it's like anybody can win that game. And they started off hit us with the big one quick, you know what I mean. You know it was a Jake de Loan, you know, he running around, he talking all kinds of ship.

But now we had we had.

Tom Brady, you know what I mean. And now by that time, you know it was he was with us. You know first that's Tom Brady. You know who he started to be in that time. Come Tom, motherfucking Brady.

That's a difference.

See we had like you we had at Tom Brady. You had Tom and motherfucking Brady. See that, that's who he was at that time. So when you have that, and we knew if we stayed in here.

You're drinking Tom exactly.

I had chiseled jaw, avocado yeah, beautiful hair, yeah, skin complexion and how do you smell good after practice?

Tom?

So when you got that, man, we were like, we knew what we had. All we had to do is now you don't mess up. Now we don't mess up because we know we give you a chance you don't already proved it time and time getting not just in the big games, but any game you know we're gonna win. And Tom, like I said, I've never seen anybody like him when it comes to being so cool and calm under pressure. Set one man football and that's Adam Vinit Terry, Yo, bro,

Next, Andrew Whitworth talks about the Rams Super Bowl victory.

Did you have a template because you guys were there a couple of years, you would think, but it ended up being a home game and then the league actually, which I you know, it's like one of those things for me.

Hey listen, it worked out perfect. I have no complaints for the young guys.

I feel bad that we're on that team that never been to a Super Bowl because when we went to Atlanta and play you guys, you get the all. No, you're on the road like we're in a hotel. We're busting the media days. You see all the security.

You stayed home.

We stayed in our facility and practiced and stayed to their houses like literally busted.

Think about that.

We literally went to the game like it was a home game, and like, hey, the night before stayed in a hotel by the stadium and just rode over to the game.

And so it was the weirdest week we even did.

They even allowed us to do our media at our facility, so we didn't even have a media day.

So it was a weird, weird week.

It felt like a you know, late December game that you're just at home, and obviously in Cali, you know you have the great weather, so just it didn't even feel like you're playing in the super Bowl. It is very strange compared to going to Atlanta.

Almost could be taken as an advantage though for a young guy, because there was less distraction for sure.

I just mean like I hated for them that they didn't experience like the allness of what a Super Bowl feels like, right, and that that's what I remember the most. And then you know, really of the game, I just remember it felt like every five seconds I turned around, we lost an offensive player, like wait, who's out? You know, like you're on the side, you know, it's like wait, You're going to get in the huddle and you're like wait, wait,

Guys. Do you guys get to use your same locker room that game? Yeah? Oh heck, everything was the same. That isn't wild. Yeah it was wild.

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