What's next for the Cowboys in free agency?

and he hasnt yet realized that u cant always show up at these events without people criticizing you
he’s learning that now, aikman said “you damn well better worry about perception”
or something like that idk

that no one turned those roles down.

While few players receive the publicity that Romo does, two things are true:

1. There are players, as active in similar events, who are not accused of being fame-hungry.
-Peyton Manning is in more commercials than the voice over guy
-Jason Taylor wasn’t accused of being fame-hungry until he missed part of training camp. When he and Tony Gonzalez were in the SI swimsuit edition holding up models, no one criticized them.
-Emmitt Smith played in celebrity golf tournaments. People usually seemed impressed that he was doing it; I don’t remember any frowning.
-Didn’t Tom Brady get two supermodels pregnant? If both girls showed up to the same Pats game and got into a (really hot) fight, Jessica Simpson wearing a pink jersey is still the bigger story.
-I’m not sure what Matt Leinhart has been doing lately, but the reason I’m not sure strengthens my position that Romo’s publicity is largely outside his control (the reason being that “Leinart does X” just wouldn’t make the news the same way that “Romo does X” does)

Most NFL players involve themselves pretty significantly in the public sphere, it’s just that Romo’s involvement is more emphasized.

It’s not his fault; it’s the product of bastardized, for-profit media. The truth is that more people will stop at ESPN or click on a link if it concerns the Cowboys than for any other NFL franchise because the Cowboys have more fans AND more “haters” than any other team.

When Jerry Jones said that Marion Barber’s toe was fine (but calf was injured), the headline likely to attract the most attention won. “Delay in Barber’s Recovery” just doesn’t have the same effect on stupid people as “Jones Questions Barber’s Toughness; Dallas Locker Room In Turmoil” does.

Dallas is highly scrutinized as a team, AND Romo, as the team’s Pro Bowl QB will necessarily attract a lot of that attention. The fact that it’s difficult to name many of the other players dating celebrities and playing in golf tournaments DOES NOT MEAN THAN NO ONE ELSE DOES IT.

The things that we hear about occasionally (players carrying guns, having crazy parties on boats, etc) happens daily, but we only hear about these things when they’re “newsworthy.” If TO and Hank Basket say the same thing, TO’s comment is infinitely more likely to be reproduced (and probably misconstrued). Just for fun, I looked up the 2009 celebrity golfers and found quite a few NFL players (http://www.tahoecelebritygolf.com/PlayerList.html). Romo is one of 13 current NFL players scheduled to play in 2009, but you just don’t hear anyone calling Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Shaub, AJ Hawk or Aaron Rodgers too Hollywood

2. Romo has more available opportunities than most (nearly all) . You know damn well Tavaris Jackson or Matt Shaub would love to be doing Peyton’s big dollar commercials, but will never have that opportunity. Likewise, there’s a mediocre golfer in the NFL wishing he had been invited and as CaliFanInTx said, who wouldn’t want to judge the Miss Universe Pageant? If you walk down a street and offer the opportunity to ten men and more than 1 rejects, you’re probably hanging out in the Castro.

Assuming that Romo is involved in more public events than most, his decision to accept such opportunities cannot be compared with the (lack of) decision that Jason Campbell (never) undertook. Most of the NFL players competing in the celebrity golf tournament are winning QBs, there are probably countless backup players, or players bad/unpopular temas who can swing a club and would have jumped at the chance to play.

ONLY demonstrating that other players are presented with the same opportunities and turn them down can help to establish your argument; it should be undisputed that not everyone had the opportunity to do the things Romo did to piss you off.

PS-I’m going to assert that Vick did the whole dog thing to get out of his contract with the Falcons; he just didn’t want to play with Roddy White for some reason. I don’t really have anything to support this claim, but it was my subjective intuitive inference and therefore supercedes all reason and factual application.

I don’t think it had a name, but I know it was played the week before the US Open and it was held to see if an amatuer could break 100 on a US Open course with really high rough and super fast greens.

The players obviously used their gross scores, handicaps didn’t matter.

Romo said trying to score low on that course really helped him in terms of mental preparation for the football season. If you don’t play golf then you wouldn’t know how mentally challenging that game can be.