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Watch Rob Gronkowski go undercover as a Lyft driver

The Patriots tight end grilled passengers on Patriots trivia and talked about his “man crush” on Tom Brady.

October 25, 2016

When taking an Uber, Lyft, or other ride-hailing service, passengers usually hope a surge in demand doesn’t cause prices to spike. But when Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski disguised himself as a Lyft driver, he made sure to include a spike riders actually enjoyed.In a new video from Lyft that aired on Good Morning America Tuesday morning, Gronk disguised himself in a pair of goofy wigs and sunglasses and picked up local passengers. The tight end waxed poetic about his love of astronomy (“E=MC squared? Easy!”), his amazing ability to name every Patriots player (“David Andrews, center — no one knows the centers! I know ‘em all!”), and his “man crush” on Tom Brady.“Yeah, but he’s married,” one female passenger said. “So he’s like, off-limits, you know.”“I mean, I’m not trying to get with him,” Gronkowski responded. “I mean, I just want to meet him.”When each ride concluded, the tight end took the passengers into a parking lot and taught them how to execute a high-powered Gronk spike.Gronkowski isn’t the first Boston athlete to go undercover as a Lyft driver. Red Sox slugger and fellow Dunkin’ Donuts pitchman David Ortiz <a href="https://www.boston.com/sports/david-ortiz/2016/09/28/watch-as-bostonians-somehow-fail-to-recognize-david-ortiz-as-an-undercover-lyft-driver" target="_blank">pulled the same joke</a> in September.

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Watch Rob Gronkowski go undercover as a Lyft driver

The Patriots tight end grilled passengers on Patriots trivia and talked about his “man crush” on Tom Brady.

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