My husband posts here, so I saw your post and had to respond, woman to woman, possibly mother to mother. Your statements are insulting to the intelligence of women and female football fans in general. I am all for charity work. But the thing about charity work and celebrities is that most of them know that the world is watching when they do their good deeds. There are a few guys out there, on the Cowboys, who just do good, late at night, in the dark, when no one is watching just because it is how they were raised. For instance when Romo got in from a late flight, dressed to a T, and stopped his car in the middle of the night to help an elderly man change a flat tire in a strip mall parking lot. No camera crew, no Hollywood hotties. Nothing but helping out his fellow man in need, just because that is what truly good people do. The couple was so impressed with him that they reported it to the papers, not Tony’s PR crew, the couple. And he just shrugs it off because it is just in him, it’s not about the fame.

Or maybe you aren’t aware of the homeless guy Tony brought in to a movie with him out of the blue. Again, not to make you say “aww” but just because it is the right thing to do. More of us should be less aware of who is watching and more aware of our moral obligations to the world. Who knows, it just might be a kinder place to live.

I don’t know if Romo slept around on his girlfriend. I’m raising 3 boys and they are good kids, and I hope that they grow up with some of the qualities as a human being that I’ve seen Tony Romo display. But I would be lying if I said they were perfect, or that they never did something utterly stupid. None of us is perfect. Try as we may, we will make the wrong choices, and then we work to get past that choice. Talk about trying to throw the baby out with the bath water here. Give the kid a break. I’m not condoning cheating by any means. But we have no idea what was intended to sell papers and what actually happened. EVEN IF IT IS TRUE, one bad act, a bad person does not make. Every one of us has screwed up and will keep on until the end of time.

You are free to form your own opinion, but if you’re really watching the game, and not worried about the supermarket gossip, then you would just know that Tony Romo has what it takes. He’s done extremely well for someone who came in the way that he did. He rolls with the punches, and gets up again for more to fight again another day. Again, qualities I wish for my sons. He does not come out and presume to be God, and I don’t think we should lay that on him either. He’s a human kid. He’ll make us smile and he’ll make us grit our teeth. But most of the time, we’ll be smiling with him.

Airtyme’s Wife and mom of 4

Yes, Roger and Troy where involved in charity work, but that is not what made them great. There are a great number of QB’s that did the same amount of charity work, but never amounted to much on the field.

You say being involved in charities helps your image. Helps your image for what? Being a role model? Look, I like to see these guys do good things too. But what is a role model? Nothing more than a model playing a role. An “image” is nothing more than a false reflection of ones self. That does not define greatness.

You also say that you need to be a leader off the field as well. This is so incorrect. Is it a good thing, something I would like to see in my QB? Absolutely! But it is not a must.

If the qualities you are describing are what you want in a QB, there are a million people in this world who could fill that role. But how many of them can throw for over 300 yards and multiple touchdowns in a single game while making an average OL look good?

Maybe the one after the philly game basically saying that if he doesn’t ever win a football game, then he still has had a pretty good life?

If that is the case, then maybe you should read “Quite Strengt” by Tony Dungy. In it, he talks about how he has always stressed to his players the importance of understanding that “Football is not everything…” He goes on to talk about how football should not be what your life goal is about, and that being able to play in the NFL is a gift that should be charished, bu ther are more important things.

Having said that, I remember hearing Tony Romo talk about Tony Dungys book. To me, he has his priorities right. If you are naive enough to beleive what you read in he media, then I feel sorry for you.

End of discussion!

I guess I need my own account. Anyway…

We’ve been in the public eye as a family before…interviewed by the press, had great questions posed of us, answered them honestly, and then turned around a week later to read words that had come from my mouth be rearranged to form an absolutely different phrase than what I had stated. I recorded myself, so I know this for a fact. The media (not just tabloids, but even the “respectable” ones) print exactly what they think will get more views or sell more papers. It doesn’t matter if you see a recorded interview of Tony Romo (enter your other favorite celebrity here) saying verbatim what the tabloid articles are saying, you still can’t take it as gospel. There is a little game they like to play called splicing and dicing. For instance, they can ask him, “Did you take that girl up to your room and sleep with her?” And you can watch him say, “Yes, I took that girl upstairs to sleep with her.” But what is left out is that there were other questions asked, other answers given which resulted in the puzzle pieces making that end result. I.e. “Yes (I do love football)”, “I took that girl upstairs (because she was drunk and asked if she could lay down” “(not) to sleep with her.” Bam, a little work in the editing room and you’ve got the smoking gun admission. It happens all the time. I’m not saying such an interview exists, just that in the media you can’t believe everything you read OR see. That’s why they get the big bucks.

And an image is overrated, in my opinion. T.O. has a horrible “image.” But the majority of that, in my opinion, is the work of a media who saw someone they could go back and forth with. It doesn’t pay very well to pick at someone who won’t hit back, so they leave those guys alone. But T. O. will, so they keep at him. If he ties his shoes the wrong way it’s in the media as an insult to someone else. Haven’t you seen enough of this before to realize that it’s nothing to get worked up about? Tony Romo has a great camraderie with his teammates. He has fun when he plays—win or lose. If he screws up out there he isn’t on camera seen mouthing obscenities, he’s got a boyish grin and you see him mouth something like “that was on me.” In my opinion, that IS a role model. He doesn’t pout about it, he knows it is a game.

And as far as antics “off the field,” if you ask me it’s that same goofy kid with a great arm and a nice smile that you see on the field. Remember that much talked about trip with T.O. a while back when others would have been stressing and overworking? He has fun, that doesn’t make him a bad person, or any less of a leader.

Mrs. Airtyme