Tony Romo like a cat with 9 lives
October 9, 2007 by James Edwards
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Dallas kicker Nick Folk after saving Tony’s butt twice. Only the second one counted
Tony has been on fire for the Cowboys this year and you expected it to keep on happening against the lowly Bills.
The Bills were starting Trent Edwards. Trent was respectable for a rookie starting a Monday night game.
Tony Romo was bad for a red hot quarterback. Romo had 5 interceptions and a fumble. Two of the interceptions were for Buffalo touchdowns.
The first throw of the game by Romo resulted in a George Wilson interception touchdown.
Camera pans to an unhappy Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys.
Buffalo Bills should have “went home tonight” right then, because Dallas went on to win a game filled with improbable happenings 25 to 24. The game lasted 20 seconds too long as Dallas scored 9 points in the last 20 seconds.
Buffalo even came up with a 103 yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter.
Camera pans to an unhappy Jerry Jones.
Geez, two interceptions for touchdowns, 5 interceptions and a recovered fumble all together, a kickoff return for a touchdown, seems like you should win this game if you are Buffalo.
Top it off; you catch one of the hottest quarterbacks on an off night.
That’s a sign of a pretty resilient team,” Romo said. “I think our team, outside of me, played an outstanding football game. They dug me out of it. It was tough to go through that, especially on Monday night.
“No one is going to care when it’s all said and done how you won the game. source
But Dallas and Tony Romo were able to drive down the field as Tony went 9 for 11 and passed for a touchdown to Patrick Crayton with less than 30 seconds to go and no timeouts left.
That made the score 24 – 22 Buffalo.
Camera pans to a happy Jerry Jones.
The Cowboys went to Terrell Owens on 2 point attempt on a fade route in the left corner. Miserable Tony slightly under threw the ball and even though TO cradled the ball the defender knocked it out of his hands.
Camera pans to an unhappy Jerry Jones.
Bills win, right?
Wrong. On the ensuing onside kick, the Cowboys tipped the ball just past the allowable 10 yards and then recovered it.
With 18 seconds, Romo fires a pass to TO and it looks like a catch around the 25, setting up a field goal for a victory. Dallas races down the field and Romo spikes it at the 1 second mark.
Camera pans to a happy Jerry Jones.
Unfortunately and unbelievably, the replay booth had signaled before the spike to review the play.
Someone shoots the camera man trying to pan to Jerry Jones. No one objects.
The catch turns out to be a drop. Replay gets it right.
Improbably, Tony is suddenly super again and makes two completions for about 12 yards and 2 seconds left on the clock.
Dallas comes out and kicks the field goal from 53 yards. But the referees are not signaling the field goal?
Dick Jauron had called the timeout for Buffalo.
Backup Camera man pans to an unhappy Jerry Jones with veins bulging on his neck.
Nick Folk calmly drills the 53 yarder again as time runs out and, of course,
the camera pans to a very happy Jerry Jones.
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Yeah and LOL at what looked like Emmit Smith in the booth with him dancing his ass off in celebration.
Wasn’t pretty, but a win’s a win. Bring on the Pats!
Romo’s an interesting one…he needs to check his confidence levels. As all freshmen sports science jocks will know from sports psych 101 – when you tip over the edge onto the realms of over confidence – then bad things happen! As they did Monday. Romo should be Ok against the cheating Pats because he won’t underrate heir defence. I confidently predict less than five picks.