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Tony Romo Versus Danny White
Published: September 24, 2009
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Questions about the Dallas Cowboys and starting quarterback Tony Romo were again asked after the loss to the New York Giants on Sunday night. It was the first regular season home game for the Cowboys in their brand new billion dollar stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Except this time critics such as ESPN Radio’s (Dallas/Ft. Worth local) Randy Galloway cannot blame the loss on Terrell Owens, team chemistry, or the seemingly recent broken record topic of the “locker room” often discussed on ESPN television and radio shows over the last few years.
Comparisons of Romo are often made to Cowboy legends Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. This would seem logical since the Cowboys are a winning franchise with five Super Bowl victories.
Two of those came with Staubach and three with Aikman as the starting quarterback. Nothing more needs to be said about these two Cowboy legends.
Danny White took over as the starting quarterback for the Cowboys in 1980 after Staubach retired after the conclusion of the 1979 season. Until then, White had been the punter and backup quarterback (White was a quarterback and punter in college at Arizona State and was an All-American in 1973).
White was 28 years old at the time he took over and led the Cowboys to three straight appearances in the NFC title game in his first three seasons as the starting quarterback. All three games were on the road against the Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, and the Washington Redskins.
That was the peak of the Danny White years after which the Cowboys gradually declined until being rescued by Jerry Jones prior to the 1989 season.
Danny White was, not surprisingly, heavily criticized in Dallas as the Cowboys were favored in each of those NFC title games. And Cowboys fans had high expectations for a franchise that had played in the Super Bowl five times up until that point.
On the other hand, Romo is now 29 years old and has been the starting quarterback for almost three full seasons in Dallas.
He has yet to win a playoff game.
That includes the 2007 season when his team went 13-3 and had home field advantage. Nevertheless, they lost in the Divisional playoff game to the New York Giants.
Romo still has a few more years left to prove himself worthy of Cowboy stardom, but in the meantime he has helped shed some positive light on White’s career as the starting quarterback for America’s Team.
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