Rob Gronkowski hasn't spent a penny of the $16.3 million in NFL salary he has made in his career

[KamaAina]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rob-gronkowski-hasnt-spent-penny-200150156.html

Rob Gronkowski has made a little more than $16.3 million in five seasons playing for the New England Patriots and has saved all of it.

Peter 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 haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven’t 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]

1. same jeans? how big was this guy in high school?

he is huge.

[El Supremo]

2. Reminds me...

[DinahMoeHum]

3. If this is really so, then good on him. . .

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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]

5. I Was Impressed As Well

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]

6. I Was Impressed As Well

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]

4. Good thing. He'll need every penny for his healthcare in his old age.

NFL players are THE most underpaid professional athletes on the planet given the damage that they do their bodies.

[joeybee12]

7. The fool...where are the arrests and assault charges?

Come on, one would think he's not a real football player without those!

[Scurrilous]

8. Bill Parcells used to advise newly signed rookies etc to bank their signing bonus...

....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.