ROMO’S GOOD DEED
Posted by Mike Florio on September 11, 2008, 10:25 a.m. EDT
Though we’re always skeptical of celebrities and pro athletes who do something nice for someone else and then send an e-mail to every newspaper in the country announcing their good deed, we’ve got a feeling that the recent Samaritan-style actions of Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo weren’t intended to garner the kind of good karma that comes from, say, a grandstanding donation of $10,000 to a smattering of charitable causes. (Then again, grandstanding donations of $10,000 to a smattering of charitable causes didn’t help Mike Vick in the karma department.)

On his way home from Sunday’s game against the Browns, Romo stopped to help a couple who was struggling to repair a flat tire.

Bill and Sharon White didn’t initially recognize Romo, due in part to the bandage on his chin that was covering the 13 stitches he received after taking a helmet to the jaw.

The light flickered for Sharon White while Romo was working on the tire. He didn’t answer when she asked if he was who he is. She repeated her question when he finished pumping air into the tire from a cigarette-lighter compressor.

“I didn’t want to bother him,” Sharon said, “but I asked again, ‘You’re Tony Romo, right?’ I knew it was him by then. But he smiled and said, ‘Yes, ma’am.’ I did something no 50-year-old woman should be doing, but I screamed real loud, and then jumped up and hugged him.”

Her husband, Bill, was less concerned about his wife’s PDA with a studly young athlete than he was about ruining his ability to watch the Cowboys-Browns game without knowing the outcome: “Don’t tell me how you guys did,” Bill White said. “I’m going home to watch it.”

Romo didn’t publicize his actions at all; the team didn’t even know about it as of Wednesday. If Sharon White hadn’t sent an e-mail to Randy Galloway of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the story might never have been known.

“He gets almost knocked cold in that game, and I read it took 13 stitches to close the cut, and then there’s a long flight home and Tony’s got to be dog tired, but he still was a good enough person to stop and help us,” Bill White said.

“Look, we’re driving a 10-year old car that is sitting in a parking lot with a flat tire in the dead of night. He could tell by that we’re nothing special. But here’s a young man making millions of dollars, and he’s got all this fame and glory, and he does this? . . . This was a good person we met. A good person with small-town values despite all the big-city fame and fortune.

“[I]f I ever had the opportunity, I’d also like to thank two other people. His mom and dad. They obviously raised him right.”

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How fucking heartwarming. :mad:

Wow, how awesome of Romo. Definitely a good read.

Nah it was a good story. Still hate that son of a bitch. :mad:

that guy Pollard in KC....he's pretty good

now I want to hug Tony Romo

yeah, pretty cool of Romo actually.

Brokeback Romo is good...

At sucking cock..

:lol:

Romo could have single handedly run into both buildings of the World Trade Center on September 11th, saved every single man, woman and child and taken every terrorist directly to the proper authorities and certain people would still despise him. I guess that's what happens when you get to that point of greatness. :o

Yeah, great up until the point of choking in the playoffs. :o

Romo had a Brady demeanor to his step last week.

I hope it continues.

Yeah me too. Break a fucking leg. Nah just kidding. I wouldn't wish for a player to get hurt. Although I probably wouldn't mind either.

Giants 52
Rams 0

I'll predict Giant 21 Rams 10

That sounds reasonable.

And personally, I don't think the Rams suck that bad. Maybe it's just me wanting to make excuses for a team that (at least here) gets a lot of hate, but I really don't see them as a BAD team, exactly. I dunno what it is, but I just personally feel that they're playing way below the level they should, not that they're a bad team.

We have good players. But we suck. It's ridiculous.

i have Jackson in a TD only fantasy league... yeah, that might have been a big mistake...

didn't even play him last week and probably wont this week.

fuck, hope he does have a huge game and I can deal him.

Peyton Manning might throw for 500 yards this week

As the Colts QB, Peyton Manning lost his first three playoff games. Romo has lost his first two and has put up better stats than Manning did at that point. Peyton Manning is considered one of the greatest QBs of all time.

Anyone who uses the playoff argument to explain why Romo "sucks" is retarded. Just sayin'.

Colts made the pickup of the year by getting Justin Forsett

Yea i dont know why seattle let him go..their rb's suck

or he might not...

so, if the Colts don't win, you're really never going to post again?

part of me is going to root for the Colts then... the rest of me really could careless.

Touchdown only fantasy football league. Gimme a break.

I was once in a TD (Terrell Davis) fantasy football league where the first person who drafted Terrell Davis won.

Monday needs to hurry up.

Gonna hit a bar and grill with a giant projection screen and enjoy some awesome food and drinks.

Gonna be raining here cause of Ike, but we're still gonna do the same party as last week, just no out doors tv..

Went and got the wings and I'm bout to go make the wing sauce, etc..

We have alot of injuries coming into this week and I hope the Skins can not capitalize..

LB Mark Simoneau got put on injured reserve so I guess Jo Lonn Dunbar will get the start.. He looked really good in camp and preseason..

I am not scared though..

so, what's the deal... the Ravers/Texans game was moved to monday, but the Texans stadium has damage, so not it's postponed "a few weeks"

but they don't have the same bye week, so now there is a rumor it will be played in NO on Monday?

Haven't heard that..

Disrespectful to the Chocolate Thunderdome..

The Texans/Ravens is getting postponed until Nov. 9th. The Bengals are also moving a game to accommodate the change. Some bye weeks got flipped around. The weather damaged Reliant Stadium in Houston. 5 of the 9 retractable portions of the roof and debris fell into the stadium. Article on Yahoo! Look it up if you want the link.

500 yards 6 Td's for Manning today

Patriots sign QB Matt Gutierrez from the practice squad and released WR C.J. Jones.

News of the day is that this may be Lane Kiffin's last day in Oakland. Old man Davis might be firing him on Monday.

I don't know much about his coaching but I like this Kiffin guy.

the Crypt keeper told him to resign in the offseason and kiffin said "no, I have a contract, you don't want me, fire me and pay me".

Now, with the comments Kiffin made this week, basiclly saying what everyone has known is Al Davis controls everything hands on... he'll end up getting fired and paid.

good for him.

Al Davis is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to football.

WINFIEEEELLLLDDDD!!!!!!

Hahahaaha Colts are going 0-2

PPPEEETTTEERRRSSOOOONNN!

Peterson is getting 200 yards today.

He's a beast and the Colts suck.

:cool:

lol I thought KooS was from Indiana and he is rooting against Colts?

BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA KooS SUCKS MY BALLS!

AGAIN!