At long last, Tony Romo, who played small-college football at Eastern Illinois before joining the Cowboys as a free agent, has gotten pick-of-the-litter treatment.
He's been signed to be top gun at CBS.
But that may say more about the network's predicament than its belief in Romo as an immediate elixir to Phil Simms.
The ex-Cowboys quarterback said via conference call Tuesday that his new employer never talked to him about anything but filling the network's lead NFL analyst chair that used to belong to Simms. Romo acknowledged that he talked to other networks about possible employment, but you can be sure only CBS broached the lead analyst position on its depth chart.