Romo has fun during off-season, pundit panics

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July 18, 4:00 PM

by Ryan Killian, Dallas Cowboys Examiner

 

 

Al Johnson tells Tony Romo that Gil Lebreton's opinion is nothing to worry about.</untrue> (AP)

How dare he!!

To be fair, Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Gil Lebreton's biggest gripe is that Romo hasn't won in the playoffs. Ever. But he takes the low road to nowhere.

"But I do shift uneasily whenever I see Romo staring back at me from the pages of the National Enquirer. And lately he’s always seems to be wearing shades and Jessica’s arm, not his football pads.

I don't read the National Enquirer — apparently I read it less than Lebreton — but last I heard, that rag isn't in the business of showing athletes in uniform. They show only the candid, out-on-the-street variety. The hardest working athletes out there have downtime. In the case of Romo, cameras constantly accompany his downtime, whether he's on the links or downtown.

This means, the consumer is continually fed images of Romo at play. So Romo has picked up the image of a guy who values his celebrity at least as much as his football career based only on a warped view of him.

As he concludes, Lebreton falls back on the old, illogical cliche, "perception is reality." It's the sort of statement that can have some truth but is too often bandied about by those who have built a case based on perception rather than reality and don't want to be argued with. All retorts sound childish an unsophisticated.

But still, if Lebreton says, "perception is reality," I must reply:

No it's not.

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