Rob Gronkowski won big after betting $69, naturally, on his namesake horse in the Belmont Stakes

It might not seem possible, but Rob Gronkowski probably loves the number 69 even more than he did just a few days ago. That’s because the seemingly magic number helped the New England Patriots tight end win a nice little chunk of change on his namesake horse, Gronkowski, at the Belmont Stakes. The race took place Saturday (the date was 6/9). And the horse just happened to open with 69-1 odds to win. All of that surely helped prompt the five-time Pro Bowl selection, who recently became a co-owner of the horse that shares his name, and several of his associates to place $69 bets on the four-legged Gronkowski. It didn’t look good for either creature named Gronk during the first third of the 1.5-mile