Anyone and everyone who’s screaming about Tony Romo being a bad commentator clearly isn’t watching the game and what’s going on. Tony Romo is an easy target, I get it. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, was almost routinely injured, and made only 6 postseason appearances in his 14 year career. I feel like there’s a piece of that last sentence that a lot of people just glanced over. He played FOURTEEN SEASONS of football in the National Football League. Just for reference, the average professional football career is about 3.3 years (according to the NFLPA). Anyway, you don’t spend 14 seasons in this league by chance. You have to be smart, you have to know the game incredibly well, study it, and adapt with it. Tony Romo played for the Dallas Cowboys for 14 seasons, and retired because his back was one bad hit away from him not being able to feel his legs from the waist down.
That being said, in 14 years, you learn the game, you know the play books, you know the formations, the situational decisions, the flags, the calls, the non-calls, the justification, the mistakes, the successes, what’s done well, what was sloppy… you learn football inside and out and that’s simply a fact. Guess what you need to be able to do as a commentator of a sport? You need to know the rules, the reasoning behind the rules, the formations, the flags, the calls, the— oh wait, all the things Tony Romo already knows almost seamlessly.
Every single thing Tony Romo was talking about in tonight’s AFC Championship matchup was just about spot-on. He was calling plays before they even went down. He was right about what the referees were going to say. He called on former referee Gene Steratore if he needed clarification, or even just to prove he wasn’t being bias (which was another massively overbearing complaint) when it came to why calls were being made.
I’m sorry, but I think Tony Romo is the prime example of what a good commentator should be. If you think he’s bias, you’re only listening when he says something good about the other team, and ignoring it when he compliments your own. Change my mind.

 

P.S. The Patriots are going for their 6th Super Bowl title since 2001 and that’s bananas. But that’s a whole other article.

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