It's Love/Hate Time for Tony Romo and the Fans

It must suck to be Tony Romo. The man is paid well in order to play football (just not necessarily good football), he has a hot wife, a cool kid (because all little kids are cool), he isn't hurt more than the usual aches and pains following the end of the football season (that we known of)--it can't get much better right?

Well--it wouldn't hurt if half of the Cowboys Nation didn't want to burn him in effigy.

After an up and down season that featured too many game where he kept the other team in the game as much as he kept the Cowboy's in the game (the Week 17 loss to the Washington Redskins is a perfect example) it is only natural for there to be some dissatisfied fans.

One fan opted to express his disdain for Romo in a rather creative (and destructive; NSFW) way:



Romo actually appeared distressed in the press conference following the loss to the Redskins talking about he let the team down (an obvious ploy for folks to talk about it being a team game, but he is right--he did let fans down).

In the days since the Sunday Night game I've read a lot of articles about the 'Boys and that game inparticular and what I found most telling was one that described the major difference between Romo and RG3. No, it has nothing to do with physical ability or talent, but leadership. 

In a nutshell, players play for RG3; the seven game winning streak is pretty evident of that. They play alongside Romo. Whether QBs like it or not they are the leader of the team (or at least the offense), but that is something that Romo has never really embraced.

RG3 showed that he is not just a leader of the 'Skins, but one of the up-and-coming members of the NFL with the comments he made to Romo at mid-field following the game:

“Hey Tony. I just wanted to say to you, don’t listen to what anybody else is saying about you. You’re a great quarterback, man. And this game doesn’t mean anything.”

In the big picture he could not be more right. In the realm of the NFL and the state of the Dalas Cowboys he is wrong. 

But it goes to show what a class act he is that he is taking the time to try to lift the spirits of a man a decade his senior.