Tony Romo compares NFL to high school outcasts

Tony Romo compared the NFL and their scare tactics to the jealous high school kid who didn’t get invited to the party.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was set to put on his National Fantasy Football Convention in Las Vegas in July. The NFL came in and effectively cancelled the event by telling players they could be violating a policy that prevents NFL players from events in connection with casinos.

In an interview Tuesday on ESPN’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Romo suggested that the NFL used scare tactics with the players who had committed to appearing at the event and threw some serious shade at the league in the process.

“It’s like when you’re in high school and you don’t get invited to the party, it makes you feel bad,” Romo said.

There is some belief that the NFL cancelled the event because they wanted to get in on the action, or regret not coming up with the idea on their own in the first place. Romo said he would’ve worked on a joint venture with the NFL if they just would’ve asked.

“If they really wanted to just be a part of it, all they had to do was just call and ask,” Romo said. “It would’ve been a lot easier, I think, than going about the process the way they did. We understand that these things come about and there’s big money involved sometimes from the NFL’s perspective. If we had known about the issue of the place or thought that was something that could’ve been an issue, the NFL could’ve told us that right away. That’s where it makes it interesting.”

Romo added that the NFL never reached out to him, his agency, or the NFFC, that they simply reached out to players to intimidate them into backing out.

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