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Jessica Simpson sends mass e-mails before Cowboys games asking friends to pray for Tony Romo's protection
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http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/06/jessica-simpson200906?currentPage=3
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To many, her greatest performance has always been playing Jessica Simpson—on records, on TV, and now, in the role that gets the most attention, as, depending on whom you ask, either the glamorous star dating the quarterback of America’s team or the succubus who has destroyed the Dallas Cowboys: Yoko Romo.
The couple met through Joe Simpson. “My dad is a super Cowboys fan,” Jessica said.
O.K., to get this part, you have to know about Romo and the Cowboys. The Cowboys are a religion in Texas. The quarterback of the Cowboys is the Pope. By dating the Pope, Jessica has put herself in a uniquely high-profile position. Romo is big, easy, handsome. He began seeing Jessica in November of 2007. Then they were everywhere: Dallas, L.A., Wisconsin, where Romo is from. “She has a very small-town side to her,” Romo told me. “We’re very similar in that we both appreciate the hometown feel to a lot of things, and live our life like that.”
So Romo and Simpson are just a normal couple, like you and your girl, only faster (in his case) and better-looking (in hers), tossing the pigskin around the Cowboys practice facility, going to the movies, etc.
At games, Jessica sits in a skybox, hands over her eyes, a girl at a monster movie, too scared to watch. “She comes to a ton of games,” Romo said. “She’s a supportive girlfriend.” Her country album includes the song “You’re My Sunday,” which is about … well, you know. “I was always a fan,” she told me. “In Texas, it’s a sin not to be. But I’ve never been as passionate as I am now. Before a game, I’m crazed, sending mass e-mails: ‘Please pray for Tony’s protection.’”
I asked if she hung out with the players’ wives during games—they have a special section, like the wives of astronauts—but she said she doesn’t. “It’s a nurturing place to be, around people who love their husbands,” she told me, “but it gives me anxiety to watch with them.”
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Trouble began a week before the Cowboys were to play the Giants in January 2008. Romo went with Simpson and others to Mexico, was photographed relaxing and taking it easy, then came back and lost a playoff game to New York, who went on to win the Super Bowl. This was the crossing-of-the-Rubicon moment for many Dallas fans, after which Simpson went from being interesting trivia to being a grave threat.
“A lot of people head to Vegas, go back to their hometowns, colleges, and stuff [between games],” Romo explained. “I was just like, ‘Let’s rent a house and sit around and watch football.’ It seemed like a good decision. But when you’re in the public eye, things can be perceived differently.” Locals now speak of a Jessica Jinx, and her presence at games is noted and figured into the odds made by bookmakers in Vegas. Even George Bush, a Cowboys fan, blamed Simpson, though she had publicly endorsed his presidency. During a post–Super Bowl visit the Giants made to the White House last April, Bush suggested the Republican Party find a way to get Jessica Simpson to the Democratic convention. (Simpson has since taken a political U-turn: “I think it’s definitely time for change,” she said. “And I am very supportive of our president, and I believe that he’s going to do remarkable things.”
“Jessica Simpson has hovered over this city like a dark cloud,” Gary Cartwright, a writer at Texas Monthly, told me. “The great quarterbacks are 100 percent dedicated to the game. But Romo seems happy-go-lucky. If they win, he seems happy. If they lose, he seems happy. And all this is tied up with Jessica Simpson.”
“You know, it’s very hard when you lose,” Romo said, “because games are important, and so many people put so much time and effort in. It’s nice to have someone to come home to and try and make you feel better.”
When I asked Jessica about the controversy—her place in the psyche of certain fans—she said, “That’s how the story goes. Can’t help it. But we don’t let it affect our relationship. If we did, we wouldn’t be together, because it happened at the very beginning. Dating the Cowboys quarterback comes with hype, the fans, the bloggers, but I’ve never dated a guy that was more simple. I’m always there for him after a game, and he knows he has me to come home to.”
Starts at the bottom of page three and runs 3/4 of page four.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/06/jessica-simpson200906?currentPage=3
My favorite magazine of course...
