Sports
January 24, 2022
We Are Running Out of Superlatives for Tony Romo the Broadcaster
Don’t listen to the fuddy-duddy types who complain that the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback is too enthusiastic on the mic.
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Music
March 6, 2020
Hollywood, Texas: Megan Thee Stallion’s New Album Finally Drops Today
Plus, Tony Romo gets a much-deserved raise, William Jackson Harper gets his first movie lead, and more.
Sports
January 14, 2020
Tony Romo Deserves ESPN’s Massive Contract Offer. He Shouldn’t Take It.
As a man of the people, he belongs on the airwaves—not on mediocre cable games.
Best Thing in Texas
September 27, 2019
The Best Thing in Texas: Tony Romo Is a Legit Professional Golfer
He’s good at everything!*
Sports
January 22, 2019
Patrick Mahomes and Tony Romo Shined in the AFC Championship Game
The 23-year-old star played with the poise and confidence of a quarterback with a decade’s experience. And from the booth, the quarterback with decades of experience made us smarter.
Sports
September 29, 2017
Let Us Now Praise Tony Romo, The Best NFL Color Commentator
Who’d have thought that he would be this good at this already?
Sports
April 12, 2017
Tony Romo’s NBA Debut
The world’s oldest basketball rookie?
Sports
April 4, 2017
The Tony Romo Saga Has Ended in Retirement (For Now)
Welcome to the broadcast booth (for now), Tony Romo.
Sports
March 9, 2017
The Texans Traded Brock Osweiler and a Second-Round Pick For Nothing
Welp.
The Daily Post
January 20, 2017
What If Tony Romo Were a Different Kind of Texan?
If Romo is released, would the other NFL team in Texas pick him up?
Sports
January 4, 2017
Dak Prescott Is Clearly The NFL’s Most Valuable Player
How is this even a question?
Sports
November 16, 2016
Will He Stay or Will He Go Now?
Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo effectively conceded that the team now belongs to Dak Prescott. So what’s Romo’s next play?
Sports
October 21, 2016
What’s Tony Romo’s Trade Value?
It’s time to take this question seriously, Cowboys fans.
The Culture
September 21, 2016
Roar of the Crowd
Readers respond to the September 2016 issue.
Sports
September 12, 2016
Grading The New Quarterbacks For Texas’ NFL Teams
Brock Osweiler and Dak Prescott replaced the rotating cast of QB’s that both the Cowboys and the Texans featured last year. So how’d they do?
Sports
September 11, 2016
The Last Best Hope of Tony Romo
After a decade of hard-won victories and brutal setbacks, the 36-year-old quarterback—and every Cowboys fan—knows this: 2016 is the year he will write his legacy.
Sports
August 19, 2016
The Boys Will Be Boys
For Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys, it’s now or never.
Sports
October 15, 2015
Who Should Play Quarterback For The Dallas Cowboys?
After some uninspired starts from Brandon Weeden, Cowboys Nation turns its lonely eyes to, er, Matt Cassel. We've got other ideas.
Sports
January 5, 2015
Picked Up Flags, Chris Christie, and a Trip to Green Bay: the Cowboys Won Their First Playoff Game Since 2009
Our schadenfreude-obsessed culture is focused on the Governor of New Jersey’s embrace of Jerry Jones and the pass interference penalty that wasn’t—but after winning their first playoff game in half a decade, the Cowboys are focused on the Packers.
Sports
October 28, 2014
Colt McCoy Somehow Made a Triumphant Return to Texas Last Night, Much to the Cowboys’ Chagrin
The Cowboys fell to 6-2 in a loss that, to a lot of UT fans watching the game, still felt a little bit like a win.
Sports
October 16, 2014
Everything Is Looking Pretty Rosy for the Cowboys*
*Except the shoplifting running backs, declining national popularity, opponents preparing for Ebola, etc.
Sports
October 10, 2014
Why Are the 4-1 Cowboys a Nine-Point Underdog Against the 3-1 Seahawks on Sunday?
Are the 2014 Dallas Cowboys for real?
Sports
September 2, 2014
The Texas Quarterback Shuffle
Ryan Fitzpatrick's leash just got a whole lot shorter, Tony Romo's former backup just got a whole lot richer, and Texans fans who shudder the names "Schaub" and "Carr" just got a whole lot more reasons to laugh at the potential San Antonio Raiders.
Sports
December 16, 2013
Should the Cowboys Fire Jason Garrett Already?
After blowing a 23-point halftime lead to lose at home to a Green Bay Packers team led by a quarterback who wasn't even on the roster a month ago, the question is very much in the air.
The Culture
November 18, 2013
Five Things You’ll Be Talking About in December
1. Romo AgonistesYou remember Danny White, don’t you? He had the misfortune to replace Roger Staubach as the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback after the beloved number 12 retired with two Super Bowl victories. Though White broke numerous Cowboys records—for passing yards in a season, for touchdown passes in a season, for
Sports
October 7, 2013
Houston And Cowboys Both Lose Because Of Interceptions, Twitter Freaks Out
What do a career day for Tony Romo and a career-crusher for Matt Schaub have in common? Twitter thinks they both suck.
Sports
January 24, 2013
In Praise of My Sports Town
How I’m learning to love the Cowboys. And the Mavericks. And the Rangers. And the Stars. And . . .
Sports
January 21, 2013
Tiger Teaches Tony Some Lessons
Could a weekend of golf with Tiger Woods set the Cowboys QB on the path to a Super Bowl?
Sports
January 21, 2013
Your 2011 Dallas Cowboys: The Five Stages of Grief
Jerry Jones still hasn’t gotten past “denial,” but everybody else who lives and dies with America’s Team is trying to move on.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Tony Romo Is the Greatest Cowboys Quarterback Since…
Die-hard fans of America’s Team are debating that very question as we speak—and also wondering if the kid from Wisconsin with the buxom distraction can take them to the Super Bowl any faster than, say, Gary Hogeboom did.