{"id":913679,"date":"2026-10-02T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:06:34","slug":"tony-romo-out-as-nfl-analyst-for-cbs-sports-following-july-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913679\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo out as NFL analyst for CBS Sports following July DUI arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Romo is out as an NFL analyst for CBS Sports following his July arrest on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated<\/a>, the network said Friday. <\/p>\n

\u201cCBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways. We thank Tony for his contributions over the past nine years and wish him the best moving forward,\u201d the network said in a statement. <\/p>\n

The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was arrested during a July traffic stop in Milwaukee after police said he \u201cperformed poorly\u201d on standardized field sobriety tests. <\/p>\n

Romo pleaded no contest to a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. <\/p>\n

In an Instagram post last month, Romo said that pain caused by his career led to \u201can over-reliance on alcohol.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple back surgeries ended my career earlier than I expected and left me with constant, debilitating pain,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThat pain led to a dependence on pain medication, and my efforts to get off those medications led to an over-reliance on alcohol.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said he takes responsibility for his \u201cfailures\u201d and was working with a team of doctors. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe past month has been difficult, but it has also been personally significant. It has required me to confront and own my mistakes fully \u2014 to the Lord, to myself, to my family, and now to the public,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Romo was initially suspended by CBS and the network elevated former NFL star defender J.J. Watt to take his place. CBS Sports said Friday that Watt will continue to partner with Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson as the lead NFL announcing team for the rest of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Romo is out as an NFL analyst for CBS Sports following his July arrest on suspicion of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-913679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}