Tony Romo has a Cowboys‘ team-record 248 touchdown passes and ranks second in franchise history with 34,183 passing yards. He won 78 regular-season games.
Romo, now an analyst for CBS Sports, did not win a Super Bowl.
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He never got closer than the divisional round, even when the Cowboys entered the postseason with home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. In fact, Romo was only 2-4 in four postseason appearances.
If Romo has a regret, he said on Pardon My Take that it’s not bringing a Lombardi Trophy to Dallas.
“I’m not a guy with big regrets, I guess you could say. The only regret I guess I would have is that . . . my job was to bring a Super Bowl to Dallas, and I didn’t do it,” Romo said, via RJ Ochoa of BloggingTheBoys. “So that always sticks with me a little bit. Because you give your whole body, heart, soul, everything into it, and you just wanted that for . . . all the fans, the Joneses, for everybody that you’re around. And so that one always sticks with me a little bit just because I had that opportunity and just wasn’t able to do it. So that part of it kind of still . . . sits there.”
Romo was “Wally Pipp’ed” by rookie Dak Prescott in 2016 after Romo injured his back in the preseason. He retired after the season rather than go elsewhere at 37.
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“At the end it was like . . . I could go somewhere else and do it, because I was like, I’ve got to win a Super Bowl,” Romo said on Pardon My Take. “It’s literally what you play the game for. Nothing else matters. And it just was like . . . but would that be the same if I went somewhere else and did it? Because at that point, I’d known the game at such a high level. My last 20, 25 games, we were pretty successful, when [I was] healthy. But I was getting injured more often. [The] body breaks down in some ways through the years.
“I think it was as simple as it just wouldn’t feel as important. It would be important to me, but it was for the people I was around. All the fans that we had.”
