Camille Kostek Says She Thinks Gronk Will Play Football Again

I can barely believe that it's the summer of 2022, the opening of NFL camps is barely a week away, and I find myself stuck once again in an endless time loop of Rob Gronkowski retirement speculation. The exact same situation I lived for most of 2019 and various parts of the years since. Combing through his cryptic Tweets and IG posts for clues, digging through rap lyrics he quotes for hidden meanings, parsing his interviews and comments from his agent trying to determine if he's a Tom Brady phone call away from unretirement or genuinely done with football for good. 

But this is my lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's my life. 

And the latest addition to the mixed messaging comes from someone who should know better than anyone. Speaking to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (which somehow still exists), Camille Kostek managed to confuse the issue even further than Gronk and his agent's contradictory answers have:

The veteran Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model revealed that she thinks Gronkowski will probably make a comeback at some point in the future. 

“I am an honest lady, and honestly, in my heart, I didn’t feel like this one is a forever one. So, I think maybe he’ll come back again,” Kostek said during Miami Swim Week. “I feel like him and Tom are just having fun like, ‘Retired, not retired, retired, not retired.’”

And there we have it. The one person we can trust shining light on a subject that has been shrouded in darkness. And I'm taking her word over everyone else's because she's an honest woman. Honest, she's honest. And speaking from the heart, which counts for even more than speaking at an event where your brother is selling something. 

I get it now. Totally. The guys are just having fun. It's the Tommy and Gronky Show again:

… and the hilarity is ensuing.

Gronk and retirement are a couple in one of those running "Will They or Won't They?" plot threads. Like Jim and Pam. Ross and Rachel. Mulder and Scully. Sam and Diane. Kermit and Miss Piggy. Only this one is more like the gag on Arrested Development when Jason Bateman kept almost kissing his real life sister Justine Bateman, but kept getting interrupted, in that we don't want to see these two get together because it would be an abomination. 

So for now, I'm going with Camille Kostek. The significant other always know. And unlike Gronk and Brady, she's too honest to carry on with the running joke. So gird your loins for another three or four months of this nonsense before he does the "Psyche!" thing and hits the field for the Bucs once again. Then we'll be back right where we are now at this time next summer. 

P.S. It boggles the mind that anyone rather spend five months out of the year taking blind side cheap shots from safeties and linebackers instead of with Camille Kostek. Dudes rock.