Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo compares winning a Super Bowl to finding his wife and rubbing it in his exes faces
By Mike Dyce
Everyone wants to succeed in their career or find a more attractive and better partner to show off to their ex. That is how Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo thinks of winning a Super Bowl. In the analogy his critics are his exes and his new girl friend he’d show off would be the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
“Let’s say, you like this girl in college right when you first got there,” Romo said during a Wednesday interview on Showtime’s Inside the NFL, via the Dallas Morning News. “I can remember high school, and it didn’t work out. She liked some other guy. And then you’re upset and you’re like, I can’t wait to one day be walking with my wife or girlfriend and just come up and show her, ‘Hey, good to see you. Yeah, this is my wife right here.’ And you just keep walking by.”
If Romo wins though, he doesn’t think he’ll rub it in his critics faces.
“But invariably what I found, though, is when you get that great wife that I was lucky enough to find, you really don’t care to go back and show her off. You kind of won. You don’t need to kick people in any way. You just when you get there, you don’t really care about what everybody said along the way.”
The lack of playoff success is one of Romo’s biggest criticisms. He agrees with his critics though, quarterbacks should be judged by Championships.
“I really wouldn’t want it any other way,” Romo said. “Granted, we haven’t won a championship yet. But I’ll tell you I wouldn’t want it to be judged by other things because I put that much emphasis and onus on that specific goal.
“It’s a great, great rewarding thing to have if you’re able to accomplish that. It’s what makes you tick, wake up, work your butt off and keep going after it over and over again. I just don’t think it’d be so special if it was so easy or if it didn’t require some sacrifice and some struggle.
“I think that’s a beautiful thing if you’re able to reach that pinnacle. I look forward to that. And it’s part of the reason you do everything possible in your career to make that happen.”