When I think of Tony Romo, I think of two things: Bill Parcells, and my job as a reporter.
I think of Parcells because of a great story about him by Michael Lewis in the New York Times Magazine from 2006. The story was about why Parcells coached, even though the job brought him no outward (and inward) signs of joy. The Cowboys' quarterback problem at the time was the latest symptom of the disease. Drew Bledsoe was struggling, and for the second time in his stellar career, he was about to be replaced by a nobody, this time an undrafted quarterback out of Eastern Illinois whom few had heard of until Peter King, earlier in the year, slipped a line into a column that he thought Tony Romo (say what?