{"id":3057,"date":"2020-06-06T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tony-romos-new-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:06:00","slug":"tony-romos-new-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tony-romos-new-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tony Romo\u2019s new contract looks ridiculous after CBS layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41582396de9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41582396de9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tony-romos-new-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs\/#Beware_having_a_public_opinion_about_flag\" >Beware having a public opinion about flag<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tony-romos-new-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs\/#ESPN_just_Kanet_find_right_voice\" >ESPN just Kane\u2019t find right voice<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Tony Romo\u2019s new contract looks ridiculous after CBS layoffs<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        The Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine penned it, was in the late 1790s. Today, we are immersed in the Age of No Good Reason.<\/p>\n<p>Last month ViacomCBS began layoffs of 450 employees from all parts of the company. I know a few of the victims, solid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> and sports folks now sweating rent while looking for gigs that no longer exist or pay comparative entry-level peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d boilerplate special statement followed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to COVID-19. Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK. But that got me to thinking about Tony Romo\u2019s new CBS contract to call about 20 NFL <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s per season \u2014 $17 million per, close to $1 million per telecast for the next 10 years on a reported $170 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, that seems like a lot, as in crazy-go-nuts. In the midst of layoffs, CBS will pay him $17 million per annum for weekly, seasonal work. And he can\u2019t ensure even one more viewer or ratings point.<\/p>\n<p>Romo engenders viewer love or scorn. Many feel he\u2019s a wind-up talking box with a sandpapered voice \u2014 a point that\u2019s tough to debate, even if endless yak is now the senseless normal among TV\u2019s game analysts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15789828\"><img alt=\"Tony Romo\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Tony Romo<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I mostly enjoy Romo\u2019s work. True, he doesn\u2019t shut up, but he\u2019s amusing, pleasantly sarcastic and spends more think-out-loud talk on the next play than the previous one, a welcomed rarity. NBC\u2019s fabulous lead NHL voice, Doc Emrick, talks a lot, too, yet I\u2019m glued to every word. What good would his silence serve?<\/p>\n<p>Still, at $17 million per for Romo, how many jobs would CBS have saved had it drawn the line at, say, a mere $10 million per \u2014 still a TV record \u2014 saving $7 million per annum.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to presume the savings of millions on Romo\u2019s contract would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied to saving jobs, but if I\u2019m a stockholder I\u2019d sure like to know why CBS would even consider paying a weekly, seasonal employee $10 million let alone $17 million per.<\/p>\n<p>Romo wouldn\u2019t have worked for less than $17 million per? OK, so let him go find that gig. Or some other network might have grabbed him for $16 million per? Good for him and them.<\/p>\n<p>But at 2 bucks or 2 billion, Romo can\u2019t make anyone watch unless he comes stitched to a football game. World gone nuts.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Beware_having_a_public_opinion_about_flag\"><\/span>Beware having a public opinion about flag<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>How would you like to be under attack in a foxhole shared by Roger Goodell? Those telegrams begin, \u201cWe regret to inform you \u2026\u201d But back to him in a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It can never be what it is, or what it so clearly appears to be. It always has to be something else, what people <em>want <\/em>it to be.<\/p>\n<p>And now Drew Brees has been caught in that fishing net:<\/p>\n<p>For years, Brees has represented the best of the NFL, a charitable, gentlemanly professional and steady good deed-doer who never did dirt to anyone. Oh, and a superb QB.<\/p>\n<p>But overnight he became a fully suspected racist for saying something without teammates\u2019 approval. Asked about Colin Kaepernick\u2019s 2016 knee-taking, Brees said he \u201cwill never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shame on him! He then took a hammering from black teammates. As Brees\u2019 star pass-catching target receiver Michael Thomas, an Ohio State man, tweeted of Brees, \u201cHe don\u2019t know no better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, rather than show the courage of his reasonably patriotic conviction, Brees apologized. For what? For his insensitivity in view of the alleged murder-by-cop of George Floyd, as if that was supposed to instill overnight hatred for flag and country in addition to grief and sorrow. He begged forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Too late, he\u2019s now on the RWL, Racist Watch List. He should\u2019ve first solicited teammates\u2019 consent to express an independent thought.<\/p>\n<p>Now he owes an apology to the right-headed for apologizing.<\/p>\n<p>So where is Goodell, leader of the Nero Fiddles League, to defend Brees from such a betrayal and unwarranted attack? He has been spotted jumping on the same bandwagon as the Brees bashers. Friday the commissioner issued a statement essentially inviting more anthem-kneeling.<\/p>\n<p>So fat chance that he would scold of NFL players for declaring holy racial war on whomever doesn\u2019t march to their drummer. He has no courage or sense of fair play.<\/p>\n<p>Just more of Goodell\u2019s standard, feckless, cowardly pandering. Thus he allows the vilification and defamation of a Drew Brees?<\/p>\n<p>Bury your head, Roger! Incoming!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"ESPN_just_Kanet_find_right_voice\"><\/span>ESPN just Kane\u2019t find right voice<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Leave it to ESPN. It virtually ignores the NHL because it doesn\u2019t hold any financial interests in it. But with the alleged murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis PD, ESPN\u2019s \u201cFirst Take\u201d last week was able to land a black NHL player to speak about it.<\/p>\n<p>Evander Kane, now with the San Jose Sharks, was indulged as if he were the ultimate expert on choosing right over wrong. To that end, he sounded good.<\/p>\n<p>But as readers noted \u2014 and as is TV\u2019s habit \u2014 Kane should have been among the last chosen to speak on issues of right from wrong.<\/p>\n<p>With the Sabres in 2016, Kane was arrested for his part in a Buffalo bar brawl, allegedly fighting with a bouncer and grabbing an unarmed woman by the throat and trying to force her into a car. In the same incident, read the police report, Kane allegedly manhandled another woman.<\/p>\n<p>He copped to a six-month adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, a six-month good behavior pledge.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d previously had hassles with his team, including a suspension for missing practice to attend the NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Kane was sued by a Vegas casino for non-payment of $500,000 in gambling markers he allegedly blew through while the Sharks were in Vegas for a playoff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> against the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, not even a whisper of this during the interview.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Just wondering:<\/p>\n<p>One can play a round of golf in fours hours and never remove his glove, not even once. Yet MLB batters step from the box to readjust their gloves after every pitch, including those they didn\u2019t swing at.<\/p>\n<p>Will those NFL and college football players who respectfully stand during this season\u2019s pregame national anthem now be identified \u2014 targeted \u2014 as racists? Or will the anthem become past tense?<\/p>\n<p>Would ESPN have even bothered to air the documentary on Lance Armstrong, the Alex Rodriguez of cycling, if he hadn\u2019t said \u201cf\u2013k\u201d a lot?<\/p>\n<p>Not that it\u2019s much consolation to 32-year NBA Kings broadcaster Grant Napear, fired from his sports talk show early last week for alleged racism by texting \u201cAll Lives Matter,\u201d but Atlanta\u2019s black mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms on Thursday declared to her constituents, \u201cYou all matter to me.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/06\/tony-romos-contract-looks-ridiculous-after-cbs-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tony Romo\u2019s new contract looks ridiculous after CBS layoffs&#8221; The Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine penned it, was in the late 1790s. 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