A little over two years ago, I bought tickets to a Monday Night Football game against the Giants. At the game, I was ridiculed the whole night by other fans for wearing a Drew Bledsoe jersey. When I flipped out at halftime over the fact that a potential Hall of Famer was being benched in the middle of a crucial season for an undrafted free agent with no experience, I was told by the rest in my section to sit down and shut up. For the next two quarters, I have never seen people cheer so much for a player that played so horribly (3 interceptions in one half, goodness gracious). Despite that the score was much worse in the second half than the first half, Romo apparently was "amazing" because the offense "just looked better".
Fast forward a couple months. I'm excited to be going back to Texas Stadium on Thanksgiving day to see the Cowboys play the Bucs, and after seeing some incredible performances by our new starting quarterback, I began to think my opinion at the critical halftime Bledsoe was benched was wrong. However, I am still shocked and appalled to walk into the stadium and find that some people with a luxury suite took it upon themselves to make a sign with Tony Romo's name on the ring of honor. Are you kidding me!? One month of good play and these fans are putting him up there with Emmitt, Aikman, and the other legends who brought Super Bowls to this town!?
A few weeks later, I start to grow tired of the cocky persona he has started to carry around despite his poor performance throughout December. I open up the Dallas Morning News one day, and find a huge picture on the front of the sports section of him sitting on the ground with a huge smirk on his face, right after we just lost to the LIONS!
Then comes the Seattle game, he throws balls into the dirt and misses plenty of open receivers, and every time he comes to the sidelines you see him laughing any time Parcells opens his mouth. He finally gets serious on the final drive and executes one hell of a drive, but screws it up on the field goal attempt. All throughout the next week, I hear people calling into radio shows saying how happy they are that their kids get to see such a humble and classy post game reaction. All of that despite the fact that he just committed arguably the biggest postseason blunder in Dallas sports history.
Mainly because of all this butt kissing by people from Dallas, Romo turned into the humble, hard working, underdog that we all loved watching when he beat Carolina and undefeated Indianapolis to the big headed, cocky, mentally weak quarterback who dates celebrities, goes onstage with Metal Skool, and chokes at the end of the year.
I'm happy to see most of this unorthodox treatment has stopped.
EDIT: don't take this the wrong way, I think Romo is one of the most talented quarterbacks in the league. With any other quarterback, we possibly could have given up the most sacks of any team in the league. I admitted I was wrong when I though Bledsoe should have been starting. However, when this city elevated him to the type of celebrity status he was at before accomplishing anything meaningful is pretty unacceptable.
Yeah, dump romo and bring back Bledsoe.
