He also had the misfortune of having his Father murdered by some extremist assholes when he was 20 years old so....I think Steve definitely has earned some good fortune along the way. As a player and a coach he’s always carried himself with modesty and an appreciation of his place on the NBA food chain

I like to think that I am football savvy enough. But what I like about Romo is that he also caters to the football fans who aren’t super savvy. Not everyone who watches can watch the plays and see how the gaps are being plugged or how defenders are disguising coverages. I don’t always see what Romo sees but when he…

The headline makes more sense if you insert “as anything other than a very knowledgeable and under-rated ex-player as well as a fantastic presence in the broadcast booth who does his job of color commentary very well and adds color to the professional play-by-play of his partner Jim Nantz” at the end.

Yeah. That part struck me as particularly bullshit too. When has Romo ever bragged about what he’s doing or acted like he’s performing some kind of magic trick? He’s just out there doing his job competently and humbly. If people overpraise him for it because every other commentator is awful, that’s not his fault.

This 100%. Romo gets praise because he does it when no one else does it, not because he sees what no one else sees. I’d LOVE to have another position player do something like that, maybe a WR talking about routes, or a D-linesman/safety explaining what they see as weaknesses in playcall. The perspective and enthusiasm…

Again, it is Tony’s job to point out this Football 101 type of stuff, but the glee with which he sells it as a novelty

“I don’t know why you downgraded what we had, but I did not make us up. Oh, and you might...you should talk to a doctor because you might have herpes.”

This. And also just how bad all the other retired QBs are at this job in comparison.

Nate this is way too many words. We got your point very early on. Which makes me believe you don’t understand what truly excites people about Romo’s commentary – he is concise and easy to absorb. 

Nate Jackson played six years in the NFL

Mostly it’s because so much football commentary is absolute garbage, and it’s refreshing to hear a human being effectively explaining complex shit in a simple way. We just suffered through a terrible MNF booth that seemed more interested in bringing “debate” into the broadcast over, ya know...just telling us what the…

“I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.”

Hmm. Caught between two Michael Scott quotes to respond to this article. Do I go with “You are a thief of joy”? Or “Why are you the way that you are?” Both apply equally IMO.

Yeah, still don’t care. Having Romo doing what he is doing in the booth is worlds better than almost any other color commentator. It’s not his fault the bar is so low.

I know Jake Delhomme didn’t play for the Cardinals, but spiritually, I really feel like we should add him to this list.

You could say this before the kickoff of every single Lions game and it would be accurate.

Compare Romo’s observations to Troy Aikman’s and it’s just night and day.

If he’s such a great prognosticator, then why didn’t he open the broadcast with, “Everybody should just go to bed right now, because in a few hours you will all want to kill yourselves.”

Can anyone else admit that he was a great QB? I feel like I’m alone on this train. All of my friends have forsaken me. My kids don’t respect me. My wife... well, she’s great, actually.

in other words, this is the royal wii?