Romo doesn’t do it for me.
I get that he has a lot of fans here and of course when he was a Cowboy under center I was his biggest supporter. But to me, he never lived up to his potential. Or, maybe my expectations were too high.
I was living in Philly the year that Wade took over the team. We had the best team in football. Terrell Owens was unstoppable, and Romo was tearing it up.
Philly fans were sure that Romo was about to launch the next Cowboys’ dynasty and they were suicidal. He wasn’t just killing it on the football field, there was Jessica Simpson in her pink #9 jersey up in the booth.
We were America’s Team once again and the boys were back. When the Patriots beat us in week 6 to snap our winning streak, the Cowboys’ players all said, “we’ll see you again in Super Bowl 42” and we as fans believed it.
Then it all fell apart and Romo never played that way again. He threw 36 touchdowns in 2007 and over 4200 yards. He was smashing records from both Aikman and Staubach. Then we silently slid into mediocrity.
I guess some of you will blame Jason Garrett and I can’t tell you that you’re wrong.
But on some alternate timeline, Crayton makes those catches and the Cowboys beat the Giants in the divisional round and Romo goes on to lead them over the Pats in the rematch that everyone wanted to see that year. That turns into a multi-year run of championships that we never forget.
Just not in this timeline.