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Top ten moments of 2007: #2

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#2: Romo's Run

Week 4; St. Louis Rams versus Dallas Cowboys

It's a play that needs no introduction, no build up. There isn't a Dallas Cowboys fan alive that hasn't seen the play over and over again, and with each viewing you have to pause and just chuckle to yourself. It was simply amazing.

Never before has a 4-yard gain at midfield elicited such a response from the Texas Stadium crowd or the home team on the sidelines. Professional players and coaches were left awestruck at what they had just witnessed. The play was the catalyst the Cowboys needed to wake up and throttle an over matched Rams football team.

When you sit and watch the play and really analyze everything about it, all the subtleties and nuances that took place on the periphery, there is some amazing stuff to take in. Before I get to Tony Romo himself, you have to applaud the team around him. Not one Cowboys player on the field panicked, they just realized the situation and did what had to be done to try and minimize the damage. Watching Marion Barber run back to help, stumble as he turned upfield and the rumble alongside his quarterback is what really chokes me up. It was as if he was Romo's personal guard, and he had taken it upon himself to ensure that no one would touch his quarterback in the open field. He was so committed to his job that as he went to level a linebacker he ended up putting Jason Witten on his back instead.

But the real story for those thirteen seconds was Tony Romo. This one play exemplifies everything we love our quarterback. Not once did he even think about falling on that ball, when everyone at the stadium and at home (including me) was yelling for him to do so and avoid catastrophe. And after he booted it once, his focus was still on picking that ball up and getting it upfield. As he grabbed the bouncing ball 35 yards behind the line of scrimmage he immediately he looked upfield for someone to throw it to. As he raced upfield somehow he sensed someone coming and while hardly glancing to his right, he sidestepped a would-be tackle and continued his run down the sideline. By the time he had stepped out of bounds for a 4-yard gain (and the first down), he had singlehandedly outran the defense and traveled nearly 70 yards up and down the field.

The icing on the cake came a few plays later, when Romo scrambled up the middle for the go ahead touchdown. He emphatically slammed the ball onto the turf at the back of the end zone, and turned to be embraced by his teammates.

Watch Tony Romo's highlights from the game here.

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I didn’t realize MB3 took out Witten on that play, LOL. This play reminded me of the highlights from the 1976 Tampa Bay Bucs, except it had a positive outcome.

T-New, shutting down WR's for Dallas since 2003

by APerfectStar on Jul 17, 2008 5:32 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I was at that game.

my first ever cowboys game.

by downsetgo on Jul 17, 2008 5:35 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow

Can AUG come and sooner omg im ready for some foooootball

What the French?! Toast!

by thebigham on Jul 17, 2008 6:16 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

that was the day...

romo haters couldn’t say a word, impartial people had to at least give him his props and romo lovers were screaming “i told you so!”

i think i was in the bay area watching the game. i almost spilled my beer on that one. lol.

by Tuna Helper on Jul 17, 2008 6:23 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I watched it with my brother who's a Rams fan.

Even he was speechless at the magical play.

That #38 sure can hit!

by Aaron Novinger on Jul 18, 2008 12:22 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Great post but.......

It was actually Fasano that was taken out. You can see by the video that it was number 80. Amazing play though.

by thebluewarriors on Jul 18, 2008 3:28 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I remember thinking

he was going to make something happen on that play because he already had done it back in 2006 in the preseason game against the Vikings when the snap went over his head, he scooped it up avoided would be DL and made an amazing completion down field.

That was classic Romo and his football instincts are just simply off the charts.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 18, 2008 8:38 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Instincts

That’s a good word to describe him.

That #38 sure can hit!

by Aaron Novinger on Jul 18, 2008 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Romo

Romo with 15 yd td run in that game was money, too. You would never see Tom, Peyton or Carson make that play.

"You can't win until you're not afraid to lose"

by Wmillion on Jul 18, 2008 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

absolutely

Brady and Manning are great qbs but they need a very clean pocket to work their magic, its obvious Romo does not.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 18, 2008 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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