Twitter: Romo approaching $20 million per year?

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Makes no sense to me as I have never tuned in because of the broadcaster but if someone is willing to pay that for a guy to sit up there and mumble half the time, go for it.
 

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Whoa! Pretty strong words about a Cowboy deity. Personally I reserve terms like that for chumps like Zeke, even Romo doesn’t deserve that!
It was a joke, hence the quotes around the word.

It’s what you say when you’re jealous of someone but still like the guy—a roundabout way of saying good for him. I’ll never make five million dollars in my lifetime let alone twenty million dollars in one year.
 

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Romo should broadcast for less. If he was a team player he would take less so that Tracy Woodson can be paid more for her excellent sideline reporter.

What about Jim Nance? What if he goes to NBC because Romo was greedy and got 20m.

And don’t even get me started on CBS Deportes. Benny Ricardo is the analyst en espanol. Why isn’t he gettin paid 20m for doing the same job? Hmmmm?

It’s obvious Romo is all about the money and doesn’t care a bit about making CBS the best network.

I bet he and Dak have the same agent!
 

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Holy great googly moogly!

At this rate, he's going to make more than Dak, not just Zeke.

Look, I love me some Romo, and he does make the games more fun to watch, but this is insane.

I don't tune in for broadcasters. Almost nobody does. If I hear Beth Mowins voice, I'm out, but otherwise, I'm generally OK with whomever is doing the game.


Grady Wilson? Love me some "Sanford period".
 

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I can understand the urgency to lock down Romo.

There is an incredible shortage of good announcers out there. Not everyone can do it as well as Romo can, most recently evident in the revolving door that's been the MNF booth.

Maybe you guys disagree, but I thought Aikman was terrible in the Super Bowl. Offered no insights. His one prediction when SF had a 10 point lead, "They're gonna run the ball here." and they passed. He rarely gives any insight into what the defense is doing, hence, what the QB would be looking at. At least Madden had "Maddenisms" like watching Nate Newton hitch up his pants, or "bring the wood."
 

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It's amazing to me that a broadcaster can draw that kind of pay, but that's entertainment.

I do wonder if when he finishes his broadcast career he'll be mentioned in the same realm as Madden/Summerall, two of the all-time greats. Might end up closer to "Dandy" Don Meredith's career.

I'm surprised it's not more.

Media people often make more. Matt Lauer was making 27M when he got into trouble.

Diane Sawyer was making 8M per 20 years ago.

Romo can do some golf for CBS. He's probably better at that than most guys over there. Summerall was great on golf broadcasts.

Nance is better than most play by play guys but needed Romo to make him relevant. He is much better than Joe Buck...

Dandy Don was better than most football analysts in NFL history. There just have not been very many great ones.
 

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Maybe you guys disagree, but I thought Aikman was terrible in the Super Bowl. Offered no insights. His one prediction when SF had a 10 point lead, "They're gonna run the ball here." and they passed. He rarely gives any insight into what the defense is doing, hence, what the QB would be looking at. At least Madden had "Maddenisms" like watching Nate Newton hitch up his pants, or "bring the wood."

Aikman is a bit boring.

He is good because most other analysts are bad.

Joe Buck encroaches way to far into the analyst role instead of sticking to his play by play role. Way way too much of his opinions injected into the broadcast. Aikman's lack of personality likely causes the network to encourage Buck to inject his opinions. Aikman might be better in a 3 man booth; although those rarely work well.

Romo is 5x better but Aikman is 2x better than the next guy (Except maybe tied with Collinsworth).

Collinsworth is a bit more entertaining than Aikman but gets a bit silly and his voice is slightly annoying.

Some of the lower level guys are OK. The guy that does a lot of draft stuff is highly knowledgable but he gets repetitive and his personality is not appealing. Charles...

Rhonde Barber is decent.

Shockingly on the radio in the preseason, Bryan Broaddus is actually decent paired with ultra-Pro Brad Sham. Better than Babe. Normally Broaddus is a stumble-doofus but with Brad he sounds almost like a legit analyst.

Babe is terrible. Never focused on what is actually happening on the field. Too much of a Joe Buck look at me personality.

In the studio Bradshaw has become rich and famous all over again but I heard him as an analyst for a college game and that might have been the worst ever. Maybe worse than Emmitt and Joe Theisman.

The Sunday night 3 man crew with Theisman had to be the worst ever.

In basketball Bill Walton was a dichotomy of great insight with completely annoying personality and boring stories.

Howard Cosell was an icon but his voice was annoying as heck (Can I say H E double L here ?).

Al Michaels is a professional and was great on the 1980 Olympics Hockey game, etc. but he encroaches too much into the analyst role. Back on MNF the 3 man booth kept Michaels more in his play by play role but Dierdorf annoyed me. Gifford was OK (good broadcast voice) until his later years. His wife is the most annoying person in TV history.
 

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The fear of having Phil Simms knocking on the door again is a powerful motivator to get this done.

Did CBS' ratings go up because of Romo? No. Announcers have zero bearing on ratings. Good football matchups get good ratings. The cream of the crop teams get good ratings. NFL gets good ratings in general. No one tunes in for announcers. No one says "well I don't care at all about this game bit I see Romo is announcing so I will watch". Sports does not work that way.

Romo is a beating to listen to. He's like listening to some adolescent nerd play Call Of Duty.
 

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Romo is the best thing that has happened to CBS in decades. Announcing almost good enough to distract you from the football itself. Worth every penny of network money.
 

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Holy great googly moogly!

At this rate, he's going to make more than Dak, not just Zeke.

Look, I love me some Romo, and he does make the games more fun to watch, but this is insane.

I don't tune in for broadcasters. Almost nobody does. If I hear Beth Mowins voice, I'm out, but otherwise, I'm generally OK with whomever is doing the game.


Wow, fans are now not happy just with being wannabe GM's and try to dictate what players should get for their contracts, they now also what to be wannabe network executives and dictate what networks should pay they TV personalities. This makes so much sense because by paying TV personalities those big contacts it has these powers that then control viewers ability to change channels and they also have the ability to change the outcomes of games. Wait, skip that I woke up and that nightmare is now over those announcers don't have those powers.
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$20m means absolutely nothing to ESPN. Their revenue is like $10 billion lol.

Part of the reason they make so much money is over the years there have been ESPN announcers that have left ESPN and said that ESPN is cheap and don't pay that well. Now things may have changed in recent years but that was a knock against them for a long time.
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The fear of having Phil Simms knocking on the door again is a powerful motivator to get this done.

Simms isn't Romo. Simms tried way to often to say cute things instead of actually giving insight like Romo does.
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Man if Romo is worth 20m imagine how much Witten would make broadcasting.,,,,,

His 1 year stint at ESPN got him 4.5 mil and rumor had it that after that first year they were thinking of replacing him anyways because he didn't come off like Romo has.
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