Dear Mr. Romo

You are the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Not just any football team, but the Dallas Cowboys football team. Not the Seattle Seahawks. Not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Not the Tennessee Titans, nor the Houston Texans, nor the San Diego Chargers.

The Dallas Cowboys.

Do you know what that means?



That means it doesn't matter that you led your team to a record tying 13-3 regular season record. It doesn't matter that you hold nearly every franchise quarterback record there is. It doesn't matter that you led the team to their first division championship in years, nor that you won the bye, or the home field advantage. It doesn't matter that after far too long of a playoff drought, you have your team in the playoffs for the second year in a row.

None of that matters, because you are the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Do you know what that means? It means that for you, good enough isn't good enough.

You must be perfect.


You must win the Big One, or none of your accomplishments will count for anything. If you don't, people will say Jerry Jones wasted his money on you. People will call you a flash in the pan. People will say you are an overpaid pretty boy.

You are the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. No matter what you do, there will be people who hate you. Even worse than that, if you don't win the Big One, no one will remember you.

Remember that guy who held most of those records you broke this year? Danny White? Remember him?

Yeah.

Nobody else does either.
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