Gronk and Tom Brady are going head-to-head – in a quirky new Super Bowl 2021 commercial.
The two former teammates of the New England Patriots, who now both play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, appeared in a T-Mobile ad that debuted Friday ahead of Sunday’s big game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
In the commercial, which takes place last year, Brady, 43, calls on his buddy to ask what his next move should be – after two decades in the game and six Super Bowl rings on his fingers.
“I have one word for you: retirement,” a former retired Rob Gronkowski, 31, tells Brady as he runs around a sunny golf course. ‘If you retire now, you will be walking on soft sand in a week. Retiring is like winning a new one! I may even go with you. ”
Except, that’s not what Brady heard, no thanks to his “spotty network,” says a voice over.
“When you retire now, you will be soft and weak,” shouts the mutilated food. “Just come to Florida and win another one.”
“Like it’s that easy, Gronk,” Brady says to himself after the call. Fast forward to this year, and the rest is history. “I’ll take Gronk with me,” Brady promises in a fake press conference at the end of the ad.
So that’s how they both ended up in Tampa. Maybe spotty networks aren’t that bad after all.
The Brady-Gronk joke is just one of the Super Bowl 2021 commercials to be released early for Sunday’s big game, which starts at 6:30 p.m. on CBS. Fellow football great Joe Montana also appeared in an ad for Guinness, while a different kind of great John Travolta and his daughter Ella Travolta’s “Grease” moves revived in a now-viral ad for Scotts & Miracle Gro.