NFL legend Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski makes shock ‘half time show’ appearance during Super Bowl party for UK club

AN NFL fable made a daze Super Bowl quality astatine a watch-along enactment for a UK writer roots club.

Four-time Super Bowl champ Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski amazed amateur American shot club, Swindon Storm, with a idiosyncratic connection straight to members.

Live sum of the Philadelphia Eagles' thumping triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs was interrupted erstwhile Gronk had a peculiar astonishment for the club.

Gathering astatine a section sports bar, they received 'game-changing' quality from the legendary Tight End that they were the archetypal of 200 UK and Ireland clubs acceptable to person a stock of a £400,000 Cash4Clubs grant.

As portion of Flutter's Cash4Clubs programme, each twelvemonth they grant 200 grants worthy £2,000 each, with a absorption connected supporting clubs successful deprived areas and aiming to support adults engaged with sport.

Appearing on-screen, Gronk told the fans that gathered: "Hi Swindon! Rob Gronkowski here. Sorry to interrupt your Super Bowl Sunday, but I person a peculiar connection for everyone astatine Swindon Storm watching from Route 66 tonight.

"One of your coaches, Andy Wilson, applied for a Cash4Clubs assistance funded by Flutter. They heard astir each the large enactment you guys are doing to turn American shot successful the UK and support adults progressive successful sport.

"So present I am, connected the biggest surface successful Swindon, to archer you that your nine is the archetypal of 200 clubs crossed the UK and Ireland to beryllium awarded a Cash4Clubs assistance this year.

"Best of luck successful the BAFA league. And remember: You are the Storm!

"Enjoy the large crippled tonight."

The squad person been moving since 2009 and vie successful the BAFA Division 2, SFC West.

And aforementioned coach, Andy Wilson, described the grant arsenic "transformational", with the assistance going towards protective cogwheel and pads for caller players.

He said: "The squad was floored erstwhile Gronk appeared onscreen. The full spot went crazy!

"We are truthful grateful to Flutter and Sported for this grant, but having Gronk present the quality during the Super Bowl was conscionable incredible. We’re truthful grateful to Route 66 for hosting america and making it a nighttime to remember.

"In the simplest terms, this assistance means that if caller radical privation to springiness American shot a go, they tin without the added fiscal unit of needing to bargain the instrumentality needed to play the sport.

"This backing could beryllium transformational for our nine and our membership, not to notation the lives of the caller members we anticipation to invited arsenic a result.”

A Flutter UKI spokesperson said: “We each cognize the powerfulness of sports and we genuinely judge Cash4Clubs tin assistance tiny clubs play an adjacent bigger relation successful their community.

“It was large to person ‘Gronk’ present the quality of this year’s archetypal grant to the Swindon Storm – and we anticipation they tin replicate his occurrence connected the playing field!”

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