{"id":385546,"date":"2026-07-24T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385546\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:12:07","slug":"former-cowboys-qb-tony-romo-arrested-in-wisconsin-for-owi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385546\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cowboys QB Tony Romo arrested in Wisconsin for OWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/tony-romo-dallas-cowboys-regret-super-bowl-22344152.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Romo<\/a> was arrested Thursday night in Wisconsin on suspicion of operating while intoxicated, according to\u00a0the Milwaukee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romo was driving southbound on Interstate 43 after 6 p.m. on Thursday when a county officer pulled him over and issued a standard field sobriety test. Romo performed &#8220;poorly,&#8221; according to the arrest report. He was then taken into custody and booked into county jail after 9 p.m\u00a0and subsequently released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romo, an avid golfer, spent Thursday playing in the Wisconsin Amateur Championship at the West Bend Country Club. The tournament ran from Monday to Thursday. Romo shot 35-over par for the tournament and 11-over par on Thursday, according to the tournament website&#8217;s leaderboard. He tied for 73rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A court hearing for Romo, a Wisconsin native, is scheduled for Sept. 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romo\u00a0spent his entire 13-year NFL career with the Cowboys. He went from an undrafted free agent out of Eastern Illinois to becoming the all-time passing leader in Cowboys&#8217; history. Dak Prescott, his heir apparent, passed that record this past season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romo has worked as the lead color analyst for CBS Sports since 2017. He reportedly signed a 10-year, $180 million extension with the network in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was arrested Thursday night in Wisconsin on suspicion of operating while intoxicated,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,88032,89512,92331,87998,89138],"class_list":["post-385546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-courts","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}