Romo’s Teammates Worried Over Relationship With Simpson
Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson are proving themselves to be a cute couple – but it doesn’t look as if everyone is warming up to them. Tony Romo’s teammates on the Dallas Cowboys are fine with Simpson as long as she is off the field and far away from the stadium on the day that Romo plays.
If you’re a Cowboys fan, that means you’ll be subjected all week to deathly serious speculation that Tonica’s powers of distraction are too potent for the quarterback to keep a grip on the task at hand. Which happens to be beating the chorizo out of said Giants, who head to Big D sporting a natty 8-1 road record. That one loss came in Dallas in the season opener, before Romo had been linked to the desirous divorcee. Since then, gossip-mongering yentas, some of them in cowboy hats, have hit the airwaves and the blogosphere to forge a link between Tonica and any imperfection on the part of the 13-3 Cowboys.
The strains of angst rose up at Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve and now this week - not to mention after every errant Romo throw - and resuscitated talk that Romo fumbled away last year’s playoff game in Seattle because then-girlfriend Carrie Underwood was in the house. Even teammate Terrell Owens got in on the act after the Cowboys’ loss to the Eagles last month - a game attended by Simpson that was, incidentally, the worst statistical game of Romo’s career. “Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite in this locker room,” Owens joked with reporters. “I think a lot of people feel like she’s probably taking his focus away.”
All of which crosses the border into the realm of loco. Simpson is a babe, but an arm-weakening huddle-wrecker? I really doubt it. Maybe Troy Aikman or Roger Staubach wouldn’t have mellowed in Margaritaville at playoff time, but Romo isn’t Aikman or Staubach. He’s more the fun-loving type, and he plays best when he’s feeling loose.