Tag: Tony Romo

Jordan Spieth pulls a Tony Romo, calls Scottie Scheffler’s chip-in eagle on live TV

Spieth was great on the mic during Golf Channel’s Friday coverage.

Jordan Spieth is never quiet on the golf course.

He’s known for talking to himself and his caddie, Michael Greller, plenty during a round, often providing entertaining commentary. On Friday during Golf Channel’s telecast of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Spieth put on a headset and joined Smylie Kaufman for “Happy Hour” near the 16th green to call golf for more than half an hour.

Spieth, who sits 1 under through 36 holes, talked about myriad topics, including angles, shots players faced and his shenanigans with Kaufman and fellow buddies Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler.

However, his best moment came when the camera switched to world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler chipping for eagle on the par-5 12th hole.

“I’d take a chance on this one scaring the hole,” Spieth says as Scheffler takes his strike, copying former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who especially early in his broadcasting career for CBS made predictions that came true.

And you guessed it, Scheffler made it.

“You’re 1 for 1 in making predictions,” Kaufman said after the shot.

Spieth added: “I’m assuming that was live? I didn’t hear anything in my ears, so that was fortunate.”

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Tony Romo passionately endorsed Tom Brady’s future as NFL announcer because of his intense preparation

Tony Romo thinks Tom Brady will be an exceptional NFL announcer.

Come next NFL season, we’re literally going to be hearing a lot from Tom Brady again. The legendary quarterback is stepping into Fox’s No. 1 NFL announcing booth next to Kevin Burkhardt, replacing the beloved Greg Olsen.

It’ll be a challenging task, especially for a rookie announcer like Brady. But it’s one that CBS’s Tony Romo thinks Brady will eventually shine in.

In a new story from The Athletic’s Richard Deitch, Romo shared a hearty endorsement of Brady’s announcing chops. He thinks that Brady’s commitment to his craft will separate him from his peers and make him a beloved addition to any Sunday football-watching living room. This sentiment comes after Romo had apparently had many discussions with Brady.

More from The Athletic:

“Just two buddies talking football,” [Tony] Romo said of the conversations. “I’m excited for him. Tom [Brady] will exhaust every resource to be as good at this as anybody. I think me and him have similar traits in that we’re going to try and work as hard as humanly possible to be as good as we can be at anything that we care about. He’s doing that. I think it was a genius decision by him to wait a year coming out and prepare himself. He’s going to do a great job. I think he’s going to be outstanding.”

Only time will tell what Brady’s announcing future holds. But if he pushes himself to be as personable and analytical as possible, he probably does have a very bright future in the booth.

NFL fans are so mad at Tony Romo for talking over the Chiefs’ Super Bowl-winning touchdown

Tony Romo, you gotta let the moment breathe!!

If there’s anything that announcers in sports have learned over the years, it’s this: When there’s a huge moment, sometimes it’s best to sit back and let it breathe.

For so many NFL fans, that moment was on Sunday night when the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in overtime over the San Francisco 49ers, with Patrick Mahomes completing a touchdown pass to Mecole Hardman. After the call from Jim Nantz, it might have been the perfect moment to sit back and take it all in.

But Tony Romo did a whole bunch of talking while the Chiefs flooded the field. Here’s the reaction:

Tony Romo tried to sing Adele on the Super Bowl 58 broadcast and made whale noises instead

Calling it “singing” feels like a bit much.

Early in his broadcasting career, Tony Romo was one of the league’s most insightful color commentators. Then, sometime around 2022 his contributions dropped somewhere into “Bob Saget introducing America’s Funniest Home Videos” when it came to reacting to plays.

2023 saw him take a turn away from random sound effects and into, uh, some weird existentialism and sentences he’s not quite sure how to end. He started Super Bowl 58 — his first big game in the booth — with some low-key energy and at least one instance of mixing up Nick and Joey Bosa, only one of whom is playing Sunday.

But he brought that unique energy back as CBS threw to commercial with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” playing as bumper music. Turns out, they can hear those bumpers in the booth.

Well. An attempt was made. Needless to say, an internet finely tuned to Romo’s weirdness jumped on his whale sounds.

Tony Romo calls Commanders coach Dan Quinn a ‘home-run hire’

Romo discusses how much he’s learned from Quinn.

Say what you want about CBS analyst and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, but he knows football.

Romo and Jim Nantz will be on the call for Super Bowl LVIII as the Kansas City Chiefs look to repeat against the NFC’s No. 1 seed, the San Francisco 49ers.

As Romo made the media rounds this week in preparation for Sunday’s game, he was questioned about the Washington Commanders and their new head coach, Dan Quinn. Romo, who played 14 NFL seasons with the Cowboys, knows Quinn well. The new Washington head coach spent the past three seasons as Dallas’s defensive coordinator.

No surprise, Romo loves the hire.

“Great fit,” Romo said when asked if Quinn was a good fit in Washington.

“I think that was a home-run hire. He’s one of the rare coaches who taught me, at this point, because I’ve talked to so many, I’ve learned so much about the game. I’m always inquisitive. I want to learn. I want to learn. When I retired, I wasn’t able to sit there and be like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go coach the defensive backs.’ I know coverages, I knew fronts, but I didn’t why they were in a five high, six high, why it’s an over or an under front, I just know that they’re in that and here’s how to attack it. Dan, Belichick, there are other coaches, too. I love learning, and for me, to be able to learn from a coach is a gift. Dan was one of those guys. They hit a home run there.”

Major praise from Romo. Remember, as a game analyst, he travels to a different game every week, interviewing the coaching staffs of both teams. He talks to everyone. And his Dallas ties gave him some valuable insight into Quinn. He’s a fan.

Teaching has been one of the many things Quinn has been praised for. Before he chose coaching as a profession, Quinn planned on becoming a teacher. So it’s no surprise analysts such as Romo enjoy speaking to Quinn.

 

CBS announcers schedule set for Super Bowl 58

CBS announcers schedule set for Super Bowl 58:

Super Bowl 58 is less than two weeks away. CBS already has its announce team plans set for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.

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Tony Romo finally explained why he calls Taylor Swift Travis Kelce’s ‘wife’ on the air all the time

Does this mean Tony Romo will stop calling Taylor Swift Travis Kelce’s “wife”?

Anytime CBS’s Tony Romo has been on the mic this season for a Kansas City Chiefs game that Taylor Swift has attended, he’s kept up calling her Travis Kelce’s “wife.”

Swift, as far as we know, isn’t engaged to the Chiefs tight end … yet.

Romo and his broadcasting partner Jim Nantz will be calling the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and with Swift likely attending, we’ll see if we get another “wife” reference.

But in speaking with reporters this week, Romo revealed what the deal was with those references: as expected, it’s a joke. Here’s what he said this week, via CBS Sports:

“It’s a joke,” Romo said. “Someone did that to me back in the day. … People come up to me all the time (asking), ‘What do you know?’ People love it and go crazy for it.

“It’s Taylor. She’s just as big a personality as anybody in the world right now. I think it’s a great thing that she’s at football games. I think it just adds value, and I think our team does it the right way. … It just comes out organically.”

 

Mics captured Taylor Swift and Tony Romo having an awkward conversation after a hug

Why did Taylor lie to this man like this?

Taylor Swift is such a kind soul that she doesn’t have the heart to tell Tony Romo that his commentary is making everyone cringe.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens AFC Championship game lived up to the hype before the Ravens unraveled, of course. Like most fans suspected, Taylor Swift was in attendance to watch Travis Kelce and his boys win another trip to the Super Bowl, their fourth in five years.

All was going well as cameras filmed the Chiefs’ postgame trophy celebration ceremony, capturing some pretty dope moments between Travis and Taylor, Andy Reid and one shirt-wearing (this time!) Jason Kelce. But nothing could have prepared us for this totally awkward exchange between Taylor and Tony Romo.

Truthfully, we admire her ability to be kind to everyone, but, Taylor, — GIRL! — you don’t have to lie like this.

Tony Romo once again called a playoff game like your drunk uncle and got dragged for it

“In games like this, the ball matters more than any other game.” Oh, OK.

Tony Romo is on the precipice of calling the first Super Bowl of his broadcasting career. If you expected this to get him to refocus his efforts and return to the roots that made him one of the NFL’s more enlightening color commentators, you were incorrect.

Romo continued to lean into his worst instincts in the both during Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. His inarticulate “oh my god” reactions to great plays continued, giving folks at home watching with vaguely stoned friends the chance to hear it in stereo. His on-field experience occasionally pointed out audibles and coverage schemes and occasionally made no damn sense whatsoever.

Minutes later, he’d tell a Chiefs team with three timeouts and Patrick Mahomes behind center with fewer than two minutes left in the first half “I would tell you to be safe here, as a quarterback.” That drive resulted in in a called-back touchdown before a field goal gave Kansas City a 17-7 halftime lead.

Romo was more composed in the latter two quarters of a more subdued game. Still, it was not the kind of performance you’d expect from someone getting paid nearly $1 million per game to sit atop CBS’s announce teams.

As usual, fans, analysts and NFL veterans alike noticed. And they took to Twitter to work through their frustrations.

Tony Romo continues to weirdly joke about Taylor Swift being married to Travis Kelce

Tony Romo can’t stop making the same joke on the air about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

Once can be chalked up to a mistake.

But saying that Taylor Swift is Travis Kelce’s wife three times? At least two of those have to be a running gag, right?

That’s where I’m going with this from CBS’s Tony Romo.

Back in December, Romo called Swift Kelce’s “wife” and then immediately apologized, realizing his error — they’re dating, not married (as far as we know). Then, later in the month, at a different Kansas City Chiefs game, he did it again, but you could tell that was self-referential to his previous mistake.

On Sunday, during the Chiefs’ playoff win over the Buffalo Bills, he called Jason Kelce Swift’s “brother-in-law.” We have to assume it’s schtick by this point, and we’ll see if it happens again on Sunday at Chiefs-Ravens.

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