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" In any other household, Glenn &amp;quot;Goose&amp;quot; Gronkowski, the 20-year-old, six-foot-three, 234-pound red-shirt freshman fullback at Kansas State, would not have spent so much of his youth getting his ass kicked. But then, most families are not the Gronkowskis. Rob, 24, who holds the single-season NFL record for touchdowns by a tight end, is widely regarded as one of the most freakish individuals in the NFL. Chris, 26, and Dan, 28, play for the Chargers and Browns respectively. The oldest, Gordie, 30, played D-1 baseball. So on the occasion of the family&amp;#039;s new book, Growing Up Gronk, we called up Glenn to ask him how he survived being the youngest of America&amp;#039;s most Herculean family. We couldn&amp;#039;t sit down \u2014 we had so much energy that we couldn&amp;#039;t sit down and watch TV. We were always doing something, and we didn&amp;#039;t really have any rules. We would jump onto each other on the beds, and we&amp;#039;d go through a wall. I remember Rob threw a fork at me once, and I got stuck in my elbow. I remember that one. I didn&amp;#039;t have to really hang out with my friends \u2014 I had them to hang out with, because there was four of them. And whatever they were doing, I was doing, too. Usually our games always ended in fights \u2014 they wouldn&amp;#039;t end because the game was actually over. E:60 Family footage of young Glenn getting laid out. This one time \u2014 we have a video of it (to the right) \u2014 we were playing mini-sticks. It&amp;#039;s hockey, but you have really tiny sticks, thay&amp;#039;re plastic, and you play on your knees. We used a ball instead of a puck though because it&amp;#039;s in the basement. They drilled me into the boards as hard as they could, and I went down on the cement, and it split my chin open. I got rushed to the hospital. It was on Christmas Eve, too. I was the water boy for them in high school. I was probably 11 at that time, so it was a good time. I actually had all the cheerleaders hitting on me. They all loved me. Gordie bet me a hundred bucks \u2014 which, when I was in seventh grade, that was a lot to me obviously \u2014 for who could work out the most days in that month. We both ended up working out 31 out of 31 days, in a row. Gordie, Dan, and Chris, they all stayed out of trouble and everything. But once Rob got [to our high school], he was always in trouble. He was in detention every day and all that. I know a couple teachers, once I followed Rob, they were always, &amp;quot;Oh no, not another one of you.&amp;quot;  I just got two 4.0s in a row. No one else has ever got a 4.0 in our family. I didn&amp;#039;t really fight with any of my older brothers. Mostly just Rob. Basically all the memories I have are getting beaten up by him. I had to beat him up somehow, so I came up with this move called The Treatment. You take your two fists and you shove it into the side of his neck, and it starts to tickle him, so he&amp;#039;s laughing and he can&amp;#039;t control anything, but it hurts at the same time. There&amp;#039;s no way out of it \u2014 it&amp;#039;s the hardest thing ever. He usually lets me do it to him, actually. We were big into WWE back then. One year, we had a table out in the garage. We went and got the table, and we&amp;#039;d joke around and choke-slam through the table. They&amp;#039;re looking small compared to me now. It&amp;#039;s easier for me, because I know if I work hard like they did, that I&amp;#039;ll get to where they are, hopefully. As much as it may suck one day \u2014 the workout may suck \u2014 but they&amp;#039;ve done it, they&amp;#039;ve gone through the same thing.  Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images Glenn, this spring. There&amp;#039;s definitely people, they all know, they all come up to me when they see me: How&amp;#039;s Rob&amp;#039;s arm? How&amp;#039;s Rob&amp;#039;s back? But there&amp;#039;s not that much. Rob is probably the most crazy, but we&amp;#039;re definitely up there, too. It gets a little out of control when we&amp;#039;re all together. And that&amp;#039;s basically what happened on the Super Bowl day \u2014 we were all together. Just YouTube it \u2014 you&amp;#039;ll see it in one second. Once we get together, we try to stay away from football. On Sundays, I usually just watch my fantasy players, actually. I&amp;#039;ve had Rob the last two years. I try to pick players on their teams, too, so I can watch them and my players at the same time. My goal is for them to be in the league still if I do get there. I think all of them have played with each other. But I&amp;#039;ve never played with any of them on a team before because I&amp;#039;ve been so much younger than them. So to finally do that, I think, would be awesome, especially at the top level. We haven&amp;#039;t had a fight with anyone in a while. We&amp;#039;ve all grown up and matured and everything. We&amp;#039;re all best of friends now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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