Gronk quit the NFL and became a CBD salesman. He doesn’t want your pity. Maybe he doesn’t need it.
.” He added that, at times, it felt as if his head was swollen with “liquid,” and that he was doing “brain exercises”— for instance, assembling a 750-piece puzzle—as a form of treatment.that CTE “is fixable. I fixed mine. There are plenty of methods in this world that allow the brain to recover from severe damage.”
Gronk says he became interested in CBD in part because it’s a more natural alternative to opioids. Countless football players have become addicted to opiates, a consequence of their efforts to alleviate, and play through, excruciating pain. Gronk told me he’s no stranger to pain pills, given all his surgeries. “Everyone knows how that works,” he said. “There’s a time and place for them. But it’s about the long run, the side effects.
I then asked if he thought Bill Belichick would enjoy some CBD drops. “I think he would love ’em,” said Gronk. “I think he needs tons of ’em. I would love to give him the first sample of my product line, you know. Put the tincture in his mouth for him, too. That would be a great picture, me dropping a tincture of oil right in his mouth.” Here Gronk pantomimed forcibly tincturing a noncompliant Belichick.
It’s a fine life, cushioned by about $53 million in career salary. Yet my meeting with Gronk left me pitying him a little. Gronk made his money, earned three Super Bowl rings, and got out of the NFL at a relatively young age. He did football about as well as you can. Yet he still faces a lifetime of physical pain and the risk of CTE-induced dementia. Professionally, he’s transitioned from a job as the world’s best tight end to hawking a vaguely louche version of Icy Hot.
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