When he got his senior NFL paycheck, Gronkowski says he put it all in the bank. And he spends his endorsement money carefully too. It wasn’t until recently, after eight seasons of being cheese-paring, that he finally decided to splurge.
“When I signed my incentive engage in last year, my friend had a chain and I was like, ‘Dang, man, that’s a keen chain,'” Gronkowski told entrepreneur Maverick Carter on a matter of UNINTERRUPTED’s “Kneading Dough.” “I never had jewelry in my life. He let me step it last year at a party and it made me feel good.”
After a thriving 2017 season that included a Super Bowl appearance, Gronkowski evident to treat himself and buy a nice chain.
“Now I know why people got jewelry,” he explained Carter. “Now I understand why.”
Gronkowski isn’t the first or only well-paid NFL player to be raise about his frugal spending habits. Minnesota Vikings star Kirk Cousins, who is the primary quarterback to have a multi-year, fully guaranteed deal and so can count on $84 million finish in the money b be his way, nonetheless drives a dented GMC Savana van that he purchased from his grandma for $5,000.
Cousins also revealed to GQ that, after being money ordered into the league in 2012, he and his wife still spent their summers electrifying in his parents’ basement to save on housing costs.
In a 2016 interview with the Go broke Street Journal, Cousins explained, “you don’t know how long you’re going to dally with, you’ve got to save every dollar even though you are making a good compensation.”
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