{"id":63624,"date":"2020-09-10T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/enormous-cbs-contract-puts-focus-squarely-on-tony-romo\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:38:00","slug":"enormous-cbs-contract-puts-focus-squarely-on-tony-romo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/enormous-cbs-contract-puts-focus-squarely-on-tony-romo\/","title":{"rendered":"#Enormous CBS contract puts focus squarely on Tony Romo"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Enormous CBS contract puts focus squarely on Tony Romo<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n In the world of media<\/a> excess, CBS\u2019s Tony Romo has chosen the less-is-more app<\/a>roach for nearly everything, except his salary.<\/p>\n

His three-year rise to the top of NFL analysts resulted in an out-of-this-world 10-year, $180 million contract with CBS. As a Cowboys quarterback, he made $127 million over 14 seasons, according to Spotrac.<\/p>\n

As a broadcaster, he is scheduled to make around $900,000 per game<\/a>! The NFL player minimum salary is $610,000 \u2026 for the season!<\/p>\n

While Romo\u2019s salary is large for his analysis and his opinions on Sundays, he mostly rejects participating in a world in which nearly everyone gives their opinion every second of the day on everything. He is not really even like the old-school lead analysts.<\/p>\n

Whereas guys such as John Madden and Romo\u2019s predecessor, Phil Simms, were on radio, TV and in news<\/a>papers constantly promoting their networks, Romo seldom wanders from the games.<\/p>\n

Even for CBS, Romo basically just works his three-hour shift 20 Sundays a year. Less is more.<\/p>\n

Romo\u2019s insane CBS deal, after just three seasons on the job, was due to the timing of ESPN looking to score big for \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d and the looming negotiations of the next network NFL TV deals.<\/p>\n

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Tony Romo is seen before the AFC Championship game between the Titans and Chiefs on January 19, 2020 at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/span>Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It also didn\u2019t hurt that CBS has the Super Bowl this season. Romo had the good timing to agree to the deal right before the pandemic really hit.<\/p>\n

The money will hereby define him in the booth. How much it does is the question. There are worse problems.<\/p>\n

What has made Romo stick out from Day 1 is his confidence in the booth. From the first snap, he calls a game free and loose. He could be sitting next to you on the couch.<\/p>\n

He has made himself a star and now he is minted by the money.<\/p>\n

At 40, how will he age in the booth? While Romo was a retirement-straight-to-the-lead-booth anomaly because he was so natural, there is one distinct advantage to going right away from playing to broadcasting. He had been studying the defenses he is now analyzing for 14 years. It makes him very fluent in the current game. And it shows; especially in the big games.<\/p>\n

His performance during the Patriots-Chiefs AFC Championship in January 2019 is one of the great sports broadcasting games of all time. His predictions of plays have garnered him publicity, but he hasn\u2019t overdone them as a crutch.<\/p>\n