{"id":805644,"date":"2026-08-07T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805644\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:04:10","slug":"tony-romos-180m-cbs-contract-shouldnt-be-reason-for-his-arrest-downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805644\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo&#8217;s $180M CBS contract shouldn&#8217;t be reason for his arrest downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough stretch <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/01\/sports\/tony-romo-faces-uphill-battle-to-reclaim-cbs-job-after-owi-arrest-leads-to-indefinite-leave\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for Tony Romo<\/a>. And the feeling is pari-mutuel. Over the weekend at Los Alamitos a horse named RomoLand, the heavy favorite at 4-5, neared the starting gate when it became uncooperative and was scratched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/05\/sports\/can-cbs-use-morals-clause-to-void-tony-romo-contract-after-arrest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">don\u2019t know how or when CBS plans to punish Romo<\/a> for his alleged OWI in Wisconsin, but I\u2019d suggest that the nitwits who approved his $180 million salary for calling five months of Sunday NFL games \u2014 one per weekend at $18 million per season \u2014 should be those left quaking in their wing tips.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not that it holds any relevance to irresponsible and too often deadly drunken driving, but I\u2019m among the perceived few who enjoyed Romo\u2019s hoarse-throated analysis on CBS\u2019s telecasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And even at a sensible salary, say a paltry 15 grand per game \u2014 good work if you can get it! \u2014 I don\u2019t think he\u2019d have provided better or worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rough stretch for Tony Romo. And the feeling is pari-mutuel. Over the weekend at Los Alamitos a horse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[11264,991,86497,399,398,396,397,349,99,362,1625,3015,358,39777],"class_list":["post-805644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-athlete-arrests","tag-cbs","tag-equal-time","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media","tag-sports-plus","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}