{"id":823015,"date":"2026-08-23T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823015\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:48:24","slug":"tony-romos-dui-arrest-gives-cbs-potential-escape-from-its-180-million-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo&#8217;s DUI arrest gives CBS potential escape from its $180 million mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who enjoyed 1930s cinematic comedies, there is much familiar to attach to this tempest in a table spoon as per <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/28\/sports\/tony-romos-argument-with-cop-during-owi-arrest-captured-on-bodycam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Romo\u2019s DUI bust<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/07\/sports\/media-execs-think-cbs-is-done-with-tony-romo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">status of his $180 million contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, Romo, even on his best days, has a bemused look on his face, a distant, vacant grin. But this mugshot, taken by Milwaukee police, as most of us have seen, makes him look even more as if he\u2019s doing a Stan Laurel impersonation.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the W.C. Fields connection. Fields starred in the 1933 short, \u201cThe Fatal Glass Of Beer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romo\u2019s one-too-many bust wasn\u2019t fatal to Romo or to any innocent victim, but it could cost him \u2014 if CBS successfully pursues the contract nullification it appears to be preparing \u2014 the balance of his 10-year, $180 million deal to call six months of NFL telecasts. CBS outbid other networks to have Romo wear a CBS blazer on the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those who enjoyed 1930s cinematic comedies, there is much familiar to attach to this tempest in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[991,86497,399,10815,398,396,397,99,362,3015,358,39777],"class_list":["post-823015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-cbs","tag-equal-time","tag-football","tag-media","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-media","tag-sports-plus","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823015","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=823015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}