SportsGirl

The city of Dallas has fallen in love. You might not think that it’s possible for an entire city to collectively fall in love, but it’s happened. The object of our affection? Tony Romo. I know it’s only the fourth game of the season but he is quickly ascending to “legend” status, and his performance in yesterday’s game against the Rams helped tremendously.

If you didn’t watch the game you might not have recognized the sound of the city’s fan base simultaneously sucking in their breath as Andre Gurode snapped the ball way above Romo’s head and sent it rolling the wrong direction towards the Cowboys’ end zone. If the rest of the fans are like me they were thinking for God’s sake just fall on the ball Romo, don’t make it worse! And then he managed to gain control and ran over 30 yards to pick up the first down. Further down the field and later in the game, Romo had the presence to see the open field and took off running to score a touchdown and officially lit the fire in the Cowboys’ bellies. They went on to thump the Rams 35-7 and avoided the pitfall of playing a bad team without properly game planning the week of the game.

If this continues, Troy Aikmen might start getting quite defensive in the booth while announcing the Cowboys’ games. The city may have found their new football darling. I have complete faith that Jerry Jones will lock Romo up in a long-term contract one of these days, probably once we’ve crossed the half-way point in the season. And then this city can continue to stare, starry eyed, at their television screens every week just hoping for a glimpse of their man, Tony Romo.

Side note: I cannot stand Joe Buck as an announcer in any sport. I can’t designate him the worst commentator in the NFL because that special moniker is reserved for Joe Theismann. I just don’t find him insightful or funny. He was ragging on Terry Bradshaw for a shirt that Bradshaw was wearing and it just came out sounding like he was bitter somehow about this shirt-wearing. The humor of his “Hey Terry, the 70’s called and they want their shirt back” joke was lost on me. Don’t like him. Think we need to pull him from the booth. Any objections?