There are certain situations in which you have to put your sports rivalry hatred aside, sit back, and enjoy a funny story.This is one of those times.As you know, I am no fan of Tony Romo’s or the Dallas Cowboys.I hate both of them very, very much.But I heard about this story and had a hell of a laugh because it is so ridiculous.
As everyone on earth knows, Tony Romo has been dating Jessica Simpson.They went off to Mexico before NFC Divisional round, a round in which Romo’s Cowboys lost.Recently however, rumors had been circulating that Romo is trying to break it off with Simpson.Before I continue, let me give you a flashback story:
When Tony Romo tried to break up with Carrie Underwood (his previous girlfriend), she was upset and intenton making it work.He called her over for dinner one night.She came to his house expecting some sort of romantic ordeal.Instead, Romo had a microwave dinner while sitting on his couch infront of the TV.That was the end of Romo-Underwood.
Now back to today.So Romo apparently called Simpson while she was in LA around the 17th or 18th of January.He tried to break up with her.She knew it’d be a PR disaster for her to be dumped by the star quarterback from Texas.She wasn’t having that.
Fine.Tony Romo asked her to come to his house in Texas.He told her they’d be going on a trip.Now, if you’re Simpson, you’ve got to be thinking the trip is going to be somewhere like the Bahamas, Jamaica, or some exotic island.
False.
Tony Romo took Jessica Simpson on a HUNTING TRIP!Yes.A hunting trip.Now, for those who don’t know, when you hunt down a deer for example, you go up to its dead body, cut its belly open and take out all the guts.Then you carry the gutted carcass back to your truck and then to your cabin.You rip off all the skin and then you hang the meat so that all the blood drains off of it.After that, you cut it up and freeze it.There’s no television, no paparazzi, no masseuse, no fancy restaurants.Try and imagine the uncomfortable feelings Simpson must have been feeling.
So now, reportedly, Romo and Simpson are no more.Chalk up a win for Romo.Hilarious.
My intentions were to write this piece yesterday, but I obviously didn’t get around to doing so.I wanted to hit on a few topics and throw my valuable two cents out there, starting with this past weekend’s dvisional round of the playoffs.
The Patriots won’t, can’t, be stopped.The Jaguars put everything they had out there and Tom Brady responded by going a nearly perfect 26-28.I’m not going to harp on this too long and I’ll leave it at this; The Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl by double figures.
For all the love Ladanian Tomlinson gets for being a team player and being focused and devoted to the success of the team, he sure didn’t look like he was really interested in what was going on in the third quarter when he was seeing laughing and joking with a buddy on the sideline.I would have much rather seen him hanging around the coaches and watching the game with some interest.His team was losing at that point; it wasn’t like they were up 20.
While I’m on the topic of LT, I wanted to get another thing off my chest.Last year, he whined like a pansy about how the Patriots showed “no class” by dancing on the field after beating the Chargers.He went on to say that it was a reflection of their head coach.Well, LT, your team puts itself out there to be ridiculed and mocked the way they dance and celebrate after every god damned play, including yourself at times.Luis Castillo and Shaun Phillips go out of their way to do ridiculous, and unpleasant to the eye, dances.No one wants to see two fat asses dancing jiggling on the field after stopping a runningback for a one yard gain. And don’t get me started on Philip Rivers and the amount of trash talking he does considering he’s an average, at best, quarterback.If you’re going to go out there and dance and celebrate like idiots after every play, then don’t whine to the media when you get stomped by New England next week and they mock your absurd and unnecessary shows of celebration.
The legend of Brett Favre continues.I can sit here today and admit that I was 100% wrong in the offseason to say that he should have retired.I now have come around to agree that Brett should retire whenever he wants to.He has earned it.The level he has that young team playing at, along with himself, is nothing short of remarkable.I don’t think the game against the Giants next weekend will be close, despite the Giants amazing road record.I have the Packers winning by a landslide, only to go on to lose to the Patriots.But if there is anything I’ve learned this season, it’s that you never know with Brett Favre.I wouldn’t be shocked if he somehow pulled the miraculous upset.I really wouldn’t.
Now to “America’s Team”.For a second straight year, the Dallas Cowboys choked in the playoffs.It would take an entire page to cover all of the subplots associated with this team, so I’ll just hit on the main ones.Tony Romo brought this on himself.Yes, he has the right to do whatever it is that he wants to do in his free time.Yes, he’s a grown man who can choose to spend time with whomever he pleases.But there are times where you have to look at all of the possible outcomes of your actions when you are affecting as many people as he does.You have to realize that fans have invested millions of dollars all season long for tickets, merchandise and other things related to the Cowboys.You have coaches, players, an owner, that have all put years worth of work in to get to this point.Your team is in the best position to get to the Super Bowl.Now, that being said, you know that your team struggled its final month going into the playoffs.You know that there are things that you need to improve on in order to ensure a successful run.A trip to F’ing Mexico can wait!A trip with a celebrity girlfriend who notifies all the tabloid magazines about her whereabouts before she even reaches there, CAN WAIT.Spending time with Joe Simpson and the rest of the strange Simpson family, CAN WAIT.You have an obligation to a team and a city that is paying you millions of dollars to win in the playoffs, not just the regular season.Make a wise decision, especially knowing how last year ended, and spend your free time studying a little harder so that you don’t play as terrible as you did on Sunday in the most important game of your career up to this point.Using your free time to better yourself shows maturity and devotion.Well, Tony Romo dug his own grave and now he can go party the rest of the damn year with whoever he wants.You know what separates the great ones from the fads?Dedication 365 days a year.You can’t convince me that Tony Romo is as dedicated to the Cowboys as he should be in order for them to win a title, even if you cry in a press conference about it.
Which leads me to Terrell Owens.I saw right through that press conference and you should too.I’m not buying this, “that’s my quarterback, that’s my teammate” garbage.If this was Chad Johnson or Reggie Wayne or someone, then yes.But I’m supposed to believe the words of a guy who has publically humiliated every single quarterback that he has played with since becoming a star?I’m supposed to believe the guy who upset Jerry Rice, the best receiver to play the game, because he ran his mouth too much and showed no respect for anyone…not even Rice himself?!Now he’s crying for Tony Romo?!Get the hell out of here.If there is a master of publicity stunts in this world, it’s Terrell Owens.No one even brought up Romo at that point in the press conference.He wasn’t even mentioned!And Owens just goes into this highly emotional state of defending his quarterback?!Please.You should cry about how you had zero second half catches and couldn’t shake single coverage instead of shedding tears and defending your Joe Namath-wannabe quarterback who was partying in Mexico when he should have been partying with his playbook.
One more thing I wanted to throw out about TO that I just remembered.He was talking about “losing as a team” after having a bad game himself.Funny that when he had that hell of a performance in the Super Bowl in which he caught 9 catches for 100 plus yards and lost, he didn’t find that the Eagles lost as a team.He found it necessary to call out McNabb for being tired.You think if he had 10 catches for 145 yards and 2 TD’s against New York and the Cowboys lost, he would still say “we lost as a team” with tears streaming down his face?I think not.I know not.
I have to admit, I am a little surprised at the press the TO-Jessica Simpson “feud” is getting.When Owens first made the comments, I laughed and said, “He just summed up what everyone was thinking,” but little did I know that it would be a topic of discussion on every sports and entertainment radio station.It’s also the leading story on television shows.I flipped from Sportscenter to ESPN News and then scrolled down my guide, only to find that this was a story on the E entertainment channel.In the words of my buddy Colin, “Are you… are you freakin kidding me?!?!”
This story, if you want to call it that, has been debated with a lot more emotion than I would have ever imagined.More people have an opinion on this than they do on Clinton-Obama.
How do you feel about the recent comments made by Senator Clinton about Obama’s lack of experience in the public eye?
I…I don’t know.
How do you feel about Terrell Owens recent comments on Tony Romo’s celebrity girlfriend, Jessica Simpson?
That son of a bitch!Let me tell you… First of all…
I have heard people bashing Romo saying that he brought this on himself by making the decision to bring Simpson to the game.I heard people taking the opportunity to bash TO and talk about how he is ruining yet another team.I’ve heard people defend TO and saying he is a leader on that team and speaking for the players.What made the most sense, however, was a comment about the decision Romo faced.Tony Romo should have known that if he brought Jessica Simpson to the game, he was going to have one of two scenarios play out:
Scenario 1: He plays extremely well and Jessica Simpson is the new good luck charm in the eyes of Dallas fans.
Scenario 2: He plays bad and Jessica Simpson is seen and hated for being bad luck.
Well, scenario 2 has definitely played out the way it would have been anticipated, if not worse.Romo should have known this ahead of time and it was a risk he was willing to take.Now he will suffer the media and fan backlash.I don’t feel bad for him.You want to know why he’s beneath Tom Brady both as a ball player and as a celebrity?Because Tom Brady knows how to handle different facets of his life, despite when people try to make him lean one way or the other.You don’t see Brady’s personal life EVER become a distraction, even when the media tries its very hardest to make it so.The lovechild he had was talked about so much, but never by Brady.Situation diffused.The Victoria’s Secret girlfriend was talked about constantly by the media at first.Never by Brady.Situation diffused.Tony Romo comes off as a good guy but he needs to learn how to handle his new celebrity status and make wiser decisions when he’s in the public eye.He could take a cue from the guy in New England.
Terrell Owens has gone on the record about how he feels about Jessica Simpson, and he didn’t hold back.
“Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite — in this locker room or in Texas Stadium,” Owens said Wednesday.
“With everything that has happened, obviously with the way Tony played and the comparison between her and Carrie Underwood, I think a lot of people feel she has taken his focus away, other than that, she was high on my list until last week.
“Oh, I got a message for her when we make the playoffs. Just stay tuned,” he added.
Not a Terrell Owens fan myself, but I’m glad he said what was on everyone’s mind. It’ll be interesting to find out how Romo reacts to these comments, but they are true. It’s simple…keep people who know nothing about football out of Texas Stadium; or any stadium for that matter.
The NFC Playoff Push.If you stayed up to watch last night, you would have seen the Redskins go into New York in a must win game and give the Giants a beatdown with a 22-10 victory.It is the second straight for the Redskins, and third straight home loss for the slumping Giants.The win puts the Skins at 7-7 and drops the Giants to 9-5.New York, who had a clear path to the 5th seed in the NFC playoffs, suddenly finds itself in a must win at Buffalo, who also is in a must win situation.If the Giants lose at Buffalo and drop to 9-6, they will have to beat a Patriots team that will likely be going for a 16-0 mark.If the Giants manage to drop their last two games, which is very possible, they would potentially miss the playoffs.The Redskins travel to Minnesota for what is basically a playoff game next week.They follow that up with a home game against Dallas, who suddenly looks banged up and down.The status of Tony Romo’s thumb is not known at this time, but that could serve as a serious problem for a team that has hopes of reaching the Super Bowl.If the Redskins win out, they’d be a lock for the playoffs.The Saints are also in the mix after winning 3 of their last 4.They have a home game against the Eagles followed by a road finale at Chicago.A loss in either game would basically eliminate them from the wild card chase.The Vikings are most in control of their destiny with two of their final three games at home (the road game being at Denver).What it comes down to is each team controls its own destiny.Win and you’re in; lose and the tiebreakers and odds come into factor.Should be an interesting and entertaining final couple of weeks.
No more celeb girlfriends in Dallas!Dallas fans are pretty upset this Monday morning; and they’re upset at Jessica Simpson.She is the second celebrity girlfriend that Tony Romo has brought to a game and for the second time, he’s had a terrible game and the Cowboys subsequently lost.Last year, he brought Carrie Underwood to the playoff game against Seattle.I think we all remember how that turned out.Yesterday, Jessica Simpson was sporting a pink Romo jersey in the press box.Romo had his worst game of the season, and in some statistical categories, the worst of his career.The Cowboys lost to a sub .500 Eagles team and failed to score a touchdown for the first time since 2004.“Leave your girls at home” is the common sentiment in the big D this morning.
Another College Football coach peaces out.Extension through 2013 huh?Yeah, we all know the way this story goes.College football coach flirts with a different university.Comes back to his own university and signs a big extension.And the following year?Gone.Rich Rodriguez was raised in West Virginia, attended WVU, put WVU football on the map as a perennial top 15 program; and has now left it for the lures of Michigan.Rodriguez signed with Michigan faster than Lindsay Lohan would sign a movie contract these days.Rumors are that the Athletic Director and Rodriguez didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.Who knows.All I know is that another college coach sold out on his team by going to a more attractive school.Now that the WVU job is open, I wonder which football coach will be the next to slip his way out of his current contract and come to Morgantown.
