Tony Romo led the Dallas Cowboys to a perfect 8-0 road record this season and one of his performances earned him the Greatness on the Road award for 2014.
Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys knew about greatness on the road.
Romo quarterbacked the Cowboys to the first undefeated regular-season road record in the NFL since the New England Patriots went 16-0 overall in 2007.
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Romo was honored Saturday night at the fourth annual NFL Honors awards show.
His Week 12 performance in a 31-28 win over the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., was the game that earned Romo the honor.
The Cowboys stormed back from a 21-10 halftime deficit in that game to take a 24-21 lead at the end of the third quarter.
Eli Manning got the lead back for the Giants, directing a 93-yard march that ate more than six minutes off the clock, capped by a 1-yard touchdown pass from Manning to Adrien Robinson.
Undaunted, Romo got the ball back at his own 20-yard line and was 6-for-6 for 66 yards on the ensuing drive, capped by a 13-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant, giving the Cowboys the win with 1:11 remaining.
On the day, Romo was 18-for-26 for 275 yards and four touchdowns.
But he was phenomenal away from AT&T Stadium all season long, with an NFL-best 121.8 passer rating in road games, completing 70.6 percent of his passes in those eight games, with 20 touchdowns and only two interceptions.
In his career, Romo has a 97.2 rating in 76 road games, with 111 touchdown passes and 45 interceptions, with the Cowboys posting a record of 44-32 in those games.
For the season, Romo completed 69.9 percent of his throws for 3,705 yards and 34 touchdowns with nine interceptions, posting the top passer rating in the NFL at 113.2—the sixth-highest for a single season in NFL history.
That earned him his fourth Pro Bowl selection—his first since 2009. He is ninth among active players with 33,270 career passing yards and seventh with 242 touchdown passes.
An undrafted free agent out of Eastern Illinois in 2003, Romo took over the starting job in Dallas in 2006.
He has the second-highest passer rating in NFL history at 97.6, trailing only Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers and moving ahead of longtime NFL star Peyton Manning this season.
Dallas has a record of 75-48 in his 123 career starts, including 12-3 in 15 starts this season.
The award is sponsored by Courtyard by Marriott.
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