Rob Gronkowski is probably smarter than we think

Shortly after winning the Super Bowl this year, Rob Gronkowski joked on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that he hadn’t read a book since the ninth grade before reading a passage from the erotica novel, “A Gronking to Remember.”

The New England Patriots tight end might not read much, but he co-wrote a book, “It’s Good to Be Gronk,” with his agent, Jason Rosenhaus, that will come out in July.

Sports Illustrated released excerpts including the expected tales of the fun-loving Gronk dancing at a bachelorette party and getting into a fight at a college frat party. However, the most surprising part of the surefire Pulitzer Prize nominee was the revelation that the freewheeling Gronk is prudent when it comes to his finances.

“To this day, I still haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus money or NFL contract money,” he wrote. “I live off my marketing money and haven’t blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

“I don’t hurt anyone [except (brother) Gord with the occasional kick to the groin], I don’t do drugs, I don’t drive drunk, I don’t break the law … I’m a 23-year-old guy just looking to have a fun time.”

It sounds like Gronk had fun performing at a bachelorette party.

“There were a lot of hot, sexy Mexican ladies there, but I picked out the largest, healthiest looking one, who had to be 260 pounds, like I was,” he wrote. “After 10 seconds of me dancing on top of her in the chair, the collective 520 pounds of the two of us collapsed the fold-up chair. The crowd exploded with laughter. I got up and continued dancing (or twerking) to that Mariachi music. That was the best $30 I ever made!”

During the brawl at the University of Arizona, Gronk wrote that, “Guys were coming at me from behind and from all angles… Eventually eight of them got me to the ground, and I was taking kicks everywhere, but our quarterback, Willie Tuitama, ran in and helped get me out of there. The girl I had been friendly with told me that I looked like the Hulk throwing four dudes off me. She loved it and definitely made it up to me later.”

It is good to be Gronk, who also shared a conversation he had with Bill Belichick in 2013 training camp:

“Coach Belichick was standing right next to me and said, ‘Rob, you are one of the hardest workers I’ve seen, and you’re always working hard when you’re here, but when you’re not here… I don’t know about your craziness off the field, the messing.’ I started laughing and told him, ‘The fun stuff makes me grind harder, coach.’ He shook his head as he walked off and said, ‘Whatever works for you.’”