Tony Romo In The Booth

I was watching Sunday's AFC Championship game between the Patriots and the Chiefs and I followed along briefly on Twitter for a few minutes. I happened to see Tony Romo was trending so I clicked to see what people were saying. Most people were dogging him pretty bad, and most felt that he was rooting for one team and/or against the other team. I was NOT getting that impression. I think Tony Romo gets giddy about football in general. So, in the second half of the game, the Chiefs scored a touchdown on a short screen pass by Pat Mahomes and the receiver (I have forgotten his name) made a nice run along the sideline for a touchdown. Almost immediately, Romo was diagramming the "bottom of the screen" where the play went and he circled on the screen how four guys had been bunched up and allowed the receiver to be open with space to run. I was stunned at how he had seen that so quickly. I went ahead at that point and posted to Twitter what I was thinking, like anyone cared.

I seem to be going against the grain here, but I like @tonyromo in the booth. Dude is seeing stuff right away that no one else sees. #KCvsNE

— Steve “Beto” Parkhurst (@SteveParkhurst) January 21, 2019

By the end of the game, Romo was looking like Nostradamus as he had been proven right in calling places for both teams and he was seeing stuff that frankly, even the Kansas City defense apparently was not seeing. After the game I was happy to see Romo getting some praise. I do not want to assume that the people making the negative comments were on the losing end of the game, I hope people were listening more objectively than that. The praise from Romo seemed to be coming from all quarters. Here is just a sample:

Think about the gamble CBS took on Tony Romo. Remember, when he was first hired, people thought there was a chance he would still go back to play.

To boot Simms and put Tony on the A team took guts, but it’s resulted in the best announce team in the sport.

— Anthony Romano (@ARomanoWDBJ) January 21, 2019

And Tony Romo has firmly taken the mantle of best analyst in football. He was incredible. I love when the analyst tells you what WILL happen.

— Dale Arnold (@DaleEArnold) January 21, 2019

I enjoyed both games Sunday, though the fact that the NFL has a huge officiating problem that they have to fix was on display. Anyway, I enjoyed hearing Tony Romo and right now I think he is the best guy in the booth on any network.

Making Houston Sports Radio A Better Place

Former NFL quarterback, Sean Salisbury, started a new sports talk radio show in Houston yesterday. I had a radio on and I was working at my desk, so I just listened while I worked.

I was bothered by the way Salisbury was giving out the phone number. The station is AM 790, and every other host for as long as I have tuned in to the station would pronounce the last four numbers of the phone number as 5-790. Well, on Salisbury's first day, he kept saying it as 57-90, which defeats the purpose of having the number that way, and it sounds weird. So, I let the first hour of the show go by while I worked, figuring someone else would alert Salisbury to this terrible error. However, into the second hour of the show, I had had all I could take. So I tweeted to Salisbury during the commercial break. When he came back from break, he acknowledged my tweet, and corrected his ways. I might listen to day two to see if he sticks with it.

I have helped to make the world and journalism a better place by placing the show audio here for your enjoyment. The complete show is on Spreaker and you can listen below. I have also included my tweet and Salisbury's response at the bottom. Let me know if you have any questions.

Listen to "SeanSalisburyShow-7-9-18" on Spreaker.

You can hear the phone number being given out incorrectly at these points, among others:

25:25
44:23
56:34 here the phone number was given correctly by the co-host
67:35

Then, the magic happens:

68:13 you can hear Salisbury refer to the tweet from me (see below)
68:20 Salisbury gives the phone number out correctly

Oh my bad lol. Want even paying attention

— Sean Salisbury (@SeanUnfiltered) July 9, 2018