It turns out Arts-and-craftsy Tony Romo was even creepier than the folks at DirecTV wanted. The Cowboys quarterback recently explained how he added his own touch on the alter ego character he plays in the NFL Sunday Ticket commercial.
“It was great,” Romo said during the Around the NFL podcast. “It was definitely a unique experience. I hadn’t sat in a makeup chair for four hours before. It was a little different.
“They had the plan for the situation and obviously I agreed to it. But when I was in there, though, they had a certain, they wanted me to be just a little bit less than what you saw, but I ended up feeling as though this guy like lived by himself and he doesn’t interact with human beings very often and I felt like, ‘OK, there’s this camera crew in this guy’s house and now he’s really excited, but he’s a little weirded out by everybody.