Do you own a cell phone? Do you ever go out of your house? If you saw, say, Yao Ming do something similar right out in public where you (and a zillion other people) could see, you don't think you would tell someone about it? You don't think you might call some friend and say 'Dude! You'll never guess who I just saw? I don't know man, it looked like he was buying a movie ticket for some homeless dude.. I don't know, but he's here, for real!' Yadda yadda yadda.. What is so difficult to understand about how things can hit the news?
I'm with mlweezy. What's the big deal? I'm sure most of us do something for the homeless from time to time. With the kind of money Romo gets i wouldn't be impressed unless he bought him a small house.
I love Tony Romo. He seems like one of those sports stars who never really expected to amount to much, suddenly got propelled to star status, and subsequently doesn't seem to have the ego that other players who have been stars all the way back to HS and college have. He genuinely seems like a guy who just loves to play the game, has a ton of fun doing it, and can't believe that he is dating girls like Jessica Simpson now. He seems genuinely grateful for the fact that he gets paid millions to play a game. Maybe dropping $7 for a movie isn't a big deal for anyone, but how many people would want to sit next to the stank hobo who hasn't showered in days during the 2 hour movie?
Didn't you read the post before yours? Other people call in. Reporters follow up and do interviews. Case closed. It's not hard. You can even call them ask if you really want to know: Main phone number: 214-977-8222
BS. Not many people would do what Romo did. Whether this is worthy of press coverage is another topic. If there was a smelly homeless man converting change to bills in front of you, the typical reaction would be "WTF! I'm missing the previews cause of this bum!" not "I'm going to buy this guy a movie ticket." Granted Romo is rich so buying an overpriced movie ticket for a bum isn't that big of a deal. I would be more impressed with a bum buying another bum a movie ticket with change collected from panhandling...now that is sharing.
I was just talking to my dad the other night, right before we left a tip at TGI Friday's, about this type of stuff. I said it would make me feel really bad if I were a multi-millionaire celebrity/athlete and didn't tip a crap load of money when I went out, and things like that. I think think that being generous and making someone's day just because you can would be one of the best things about fame. Whether Romo does this stuff primiarly to better his image or not, it's still awesome of him.
Most rich people/people would not have done what Romo did. I can't believe people are trying to slam this guy. In the article it said he wasn't even trying to take that much credit for it. Romo is one of the good guys in sports.
Did you hear the Utah Jazz teamed up to help underpriviledged kids learn to read last Saturday? The NBA cares. Give me a break. F Dallas.
That's what I was thinking too...inviting the smell bum over to sit next to him? I hate the Cowboys, but I can't hate Romo. Part of the reason we're supposed to hate teams like the Cowboys and Jazz are that they're usually filled with dirty players and jerks, on top of the team rivalries. Romo seems like a genuinely good person.
I love the mock indignation from perhaps the biggest, intentional attention-whoring douchebag on this board... Pot, meet kettle.
Romo is a great guy and the only reason the Cowboys are in the hunt...How can you hate a guy like that...
burnnnnn. Anyway, Good for Romo... but he still owes a ****load of karma for getting to tag Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson.
Oh, Apollo. Keep it up with your nice little one-liners in threads. You really are hialrious. Nothing like a one-dimentional zing fest. I bet it makes you feel good to know the other board members like you.
Oh cram it. You know you're relishing in the fact that someone has addressed you directly and is humoring you...
You're right. I like the attention just as much as you like your daddy, moes, coming in behind you and typing "burnnn". Now go stick to non-controversial one-liners. Some of them are actually very funny.
