Nice Job Tony Romo

dawgfan · Post by **dawgfan** » September 11, 2008 4:42 pm

Like him or not it is nice to know their are still some good guys out there.

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/story/899904.html

Thursday, Sep 11, 2008
Posted on Thu, Sep. 11, 2008
A fine Sunday indeed for Tony Romo

By RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
Tony Romo had been somewhat of an NFL opening-week quarterbacking exception, enjoying a great Sunday in Cleveland, except, of course, for that bloody chin thing.

The weekend had also gone very well for Bill and Sharon White of Irving, who were returning late in the evening after an out-of-town trip.

The national news was about a day of QB disasters around the league, even at the elite level. Tom Brady, down and out for the season. Peyton Manning, looking feeble and lost. Carson Palmer, his once stellar reputation taking another plunge.

And for pure weirdness, there's Vince Young, a young man in obvious need of either a good shrink or a good butt-kicking.

Meanwhile, even as devout football fans, the Whites had been on the road and out of touch with the NFL events. They particularly didn't want to know the Dallas Cowboys' outcome. The TiVo at home was waiting. Bill planned to watch the Cleveland game immediately, with suspense attached.

But a couple of miles from the house, while driving on MacArthur Boulevard, the Whites had their own mini-disaster. A tire blew on the Mercury. Bill, luckily, managed to nurse his wounded ride off the street and into the lighted parking lot of a strip mall.

For troubling news on a Sunday, it didn't rank up there with taking a direct hit to the chin from the helmet of linebacker Willie McGinest, but Bill became a bit woozy himself when he discovered his jack was malfunctioning. Never a good thing at midnight.

Plan B kicked in, however. One of those cigarette-lighter-plug-in air compressors was available. Except it was leaking more air than it was pumping.

"I don't know, a hundred cars, probably more, had to go by. Nobody was stopping," said Bill. "That's just kind of the way it is in today's world."

And then ...

"Bill was fooling with that tire, and I was standing beside the car watching him," Sharon said. "The next thing I know, a nice-looking young man, very well-dressed, but with something strange on his chin, he walked up, smiled, and said, 'Hey, you need some help?' "

Sharon hadn't even noticed a car pull up.

So now it's Bill and the well-dressed young man both bent over a flat tire at midnight on a Sunday, trying to figure out why a faulty air compressor plugged into the cigarette lighter was leaking more than pumping.

"I didn't get a good look at him at that point," Bill said. "We were both trying to get the tire pumped up."

Sharon, however, took a second look. "You are Tony Romo," she said. No reply, just a smile, and then it was back to work on the compressor.

Finally, they got the tire aired up. Enough, anyway, to make a slow drive home.

"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.' "

Sharon: "I did something no 50-year-old woman should be doing, but I screamed real loud, and then jumped up and hugged him."

Bill's immediate response was "Don't tell me how you guys did. I'm going home to watch it."

By the next day, after seeing what the "something strange on his chin" was about, that made the Whites appreciate Romo's gesture even more.

"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 [the Cowboys charter arrived at around 11 p.m.] and Tony's got to be dog tired, but he still was a good enough person to stop and help us," Bill 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?"

The Whites couldn't thank Romo enough. "But if I ever had the opportunity, I'd also like to thank two other people. His mom and dad," Bill said. "They obviously raised him right. We've got kids about his age. We know how difficult it can sometimes be in this day and age."

(An e-mail from Sharon alerted me to Tony's good deed. No Cowboys official knew about it even by Wednesday.)

Not that the Whites weren't already Romo fans, but ...

"After all this, what I realized is the athletic thing is Tony's gift, yet it goes beyond that," Bill said. "This was a good person we met. A good person with small-town values despite all the big-city fame and fortune."

Shrug off a blow to the chin. Win a game. Help strangers fix a flat. It was a fine Sunday for the kid.

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » September 11, 2008 4:45 pm

Very nice Tony!!!!!

I like hearing stories like that!!!

OH JON?!?!??!

Capt.Flock · Post by **Capt.Flock** » September 11, 2008 4:46 pm

How about that Boy

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » September 11, 2008 4:55 pm

Good guys win.

Tropic_Al · Post by **Tropic_Al** » September 11, 2008 4:56 pm

Nice job Tony!

But I still hate the Cowboys...

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » September 11, 2008 4:59 pm

Now if only he had better taste in women ...

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » September 11, 2008 5:00 pm

LIPH wrote:Now if only he had better taste in women ...

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » September 11, 2008 5:02 pm

But who knows, maybe Jessica is tasty

Tropic_Al · Post by **Tropic_Al** » September 11, 2008 5:06 pm

LIPH wrote:But who knows, maybe Jessica is tasty

She just might be, we all know she can't sing worth a sh*t!

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » September 11, 2008 5:06 pm

Tropic_Al wrote:
LIPH wrote:But who knows, maybe Jessica is tasty
She just might be, we all know she can't sing worth a sh*t!

poor Larry got that first hand knowledge the other day!!!

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » September 11, 2008 5:19 pm

dawgfan wrote:The Whites couldn't thank Romo enough. "But if I ever had the opportunity, I'd also like to thank two other people. His mom and dad," Bill said. "They obviously raised him right. We've got kids about his age. We know how difficult it can sometimes be in this day and age./i]"

Living in Dallas, I've only heard good things about Tony and how grounded he is. He only recently moved from an apartment into his first home.
I have no doubt that his parents focused on building his character first.

Oh, and not that Jessica has anything to do with Tony's good deed, but she was raised in my town, and I think she's a good hearted Texas girl.

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » September 11, 2008 5:21 pm

At least they were in a fairly decent part of Irving

GREAT JOB TONY!!!

Seas in my veins · Post by **Seas in my veins** » September 11, 2008 5:29 pm

chippewa wrote:Good guys win.

Not on Monday night! Go Birds!

Frank4 · Post by **Frank4** » September 11, 2008 5:30 pm

It's nice to read a story like that and not something else about Jessica and him

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » September 11, 2008 5:32 pm

Seas in my veins wrote:
chippewa wrote:Good guys win.
Not on Monday night! Go Birds!

don't get your hopes up....

docandjeanie · Post by **docandjeanie** » September 11, 2008 5:34 pm

Tropic_Al wrote:Nice job Tony!

But I still hate the Cowboys...

wAs, lol

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » September 11, 2008 6:22 pm

docandjeanie wrote:
Tropic_Al wrote:Nice job Tony!

But I still hate the Cowboys...
wAs, lol

Hmmmmm, ok, something good about a Dallas Cowboy ... I must somehow digest this evil fact ....... ok, maybe it's not necessarily the Dallas Cowboys players I hate*, but Dallas Cowboys fans, right that's it, the really annoying (Duke Blue Devil, NY Yankee type) fan base.

Whew .... ok ... now I can deal with this .... way to go Tony Romo.

* exception: Michael Irvin

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » September 11, 2008 6:27 pm

surfpirate wrote:
docandjeanie wrote:
Tropic_Al wrote:Nice job Tony!

But I still hate the Cowboys...
wAs, lol
Hmmmmm, ok, something good about a Dallas Cowboy ... I must somehow digest this evil fact ....... ok, maybe it's not necessarily the Dallas Cowboys players I hate*, but Dallas Cowboys fans, right that's it, the really annoying (Duke Blue Devil, NY Yankee type) fan base.

Whew .... ok ... now I can deal with this .... way to go Tony Romo.

* exception: Michael Irvin

what'd I ever do to you.....

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » September 11, 2008 6:27 pm

surfpirate wrote:Hmmmmm, ok, something good about a Dallas Cowboy ... I must somehow digest this evil fact ....... ok, maybe it's not necessarily the Dallas Cowboys players I hate*, but Dallas Cowboys fans, right that's it, the really annoying (Duke Blue Devil, NY Yankee type) fan base.

Whew .... ok ... now I can deal with this .... way to go Tony Romo.

* exception: Michael Irvin

You realize your talking to me, right?

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » September 11, 2008 6:38 pm

popcornjack wrote:
surfpirate wrote:
docandjeanie wrote:
Tropic_Al wrote:Nice job Tony!

But I still hate the Cowboys...
wAs, lol
Hmmmmm, ok, something good about a Dallas Cowboy ... I must somehow digest this evil fact ....... ok, maybe it's not necessarily the Dallas Cowboys players I hate*, but Dallas Cowboys fans, right that's it, the really annoying (Duke Blue Devil, NY Yankee type) fan base.

Whew .... ok ... now I can deal with this .... way to go Tony Romo.

* exception: Michael Irvin
what'd I ever do to you.....

That's how my dad brought me up. Nothing personal. I make exceptions on a friend by friend basis.

One of my best friends these past 20 years at work is a misguided Cowboy fan. He and I usually attend the Redskins/Cowboys games together. We've even flown to Dallas for the game a couple of times. He in his #22 Emmitt Smith jersey and me in my #44 John Riggins Jersey

True story. about 7 years ago when my son was 2 years old, we were having Thanksgiving Dinner at our house. My 81 year old father-in-law and 79 year old mother-in-law were there (very church going people). I had the TV on low in the other room to keep one ear out for the football scores when very loudly we heard the word "Dallas" mentioned in a commercial for the upcoming game.

Without missing a beat, my 2 year son looked up from his booster seat at the table and said "Dallas Sucks!" .

My mother-in-law looked mildly shocked. My father-in-law suppressed a grin, but my wife shot ME the evil eye. I calmly took my son by the hand and walked him out of the room. Once we got around the corner out of ear shot I tested him. I whispered "New York Yankees" in his ear. He promptly replied "Yankees s***! ". It brought tears of pride to me I tell you.

When we returned to the dinner table my wife sternly asked "Did you talk to your son?"

"Yes. Yes I did" I replied.

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