Post by matt51180 on Sept 11, 2008 11:56:47 GMT -6
From USA Today blog:
Tony Romo saves the day for stranded couple
Bill and Sharon White of Irving, Texas, got a glimpse into the good side of Tony Romo that Jessica Simpson loves so much.
He helped the stranded couple change their flat tire on Sunday night after being banged up in the Cowboys' defeat of the Browns in Cleveland.
And he didn't tell anyone about it. The Whites told their story to Randy Galloway of the Dallas Morning News, who seemed to surprise Cowboys officials when he brought it up to them on Wednesday.
Sharon told Galloway that after a stream of cars -- more than a hundred, she estimated -- passed them by, Romo unassumingly stopped by to lend a hand.
"The next thing I know, a nice-looking young man, very well-dressed, but with something strange on his chin, he walked up, smiled, and said, 'Hey, you need some help?"
Bill, though he's a big Cowboys fan and was planning on watching the game on his DVR when he finally got home, didn't recognize him. Sharon did a double-take, and finally identified him as the Dallas quarterback.
"Yes, ma'am,' " Romo said with a smile when Sharon figured it out.
Bill, happy as he was for the help with the tire, had a more pressing request for Romo.
"Don't tell me how you guys did," he said. "I'm going home to watch it."
After finding out that Romo, whose chin was bandaged when he helped the Whites, needed sutures to close a gash in his chin suffered in Cleveland, Bill was even more impressed.
"He gets almost knocked cold in that game, and I read it took 13 stitches to close the cut, and then there's a long flight home [the Cowboys charter arrived at around 11 p.m.] and Tony's got to be dog tired, but he still was a good enough person to stop and help us.
"Look, we're driving a 10-year old car that is sitting in a parking lot with a flat tire in the dead of night. He could tell by that we're nothing special. But here's a young man making millions of dollars, and he's got all this fame and glory, and he does this?"
Tony Romo saves the day for stranded couple
Bill and Sharon White of Irving, Texas, got a glimpse into the good side of Tony Romo that Jessica Simpson loves so much.
He helped the stranded couple change their flat tire on Sunday night after being banged up in the Cowboys' defeat of the Browns in Cleveland.
And he didn't tell anyone about it. The Whites told their story to Randy Galloway of the Dallas Morning News, who seemed to surprise Cowboys officials when he brought it up to them on Wednesday.
Sharon told Galloway that after a stream of cars -- more than a hundred, she estimated -- passed them by, Romo unassumingly stopped by to lend a hand.
"The next thing I know, a nice-looking young man, very well-dressed, but with something strange on his chin, he walked up, smiled, and said, 'Hey, you need some help?"
Bill, though he's a big Cowboys fan and was planning on watching the game on his DVR when he finally got home, didn't recognize him. Sharon did a double-take, and finally identified him as the Dallas quarterback.
"Yes, ma'am,' " Romo said with a smile when Sharon figured it out.
Bill, happy as he was for the help with the tire, had a more pressing request for Romo.
"Don't tell me how you guys did," he said. "I'm going home to watch it."
After finding out that Romo, whose chin was bandaged when he helped the Whites, needed sutures to close a gash in his chin suffered in Cleveland, Bill was even more impressed.
"He gets almost knocked cold in that game, and I read it took 13 stitches to close the cut, and then there's a long flight home [the Cowboys charter arrived at around 11 p.m.] and Tony's got to be dog tired, but he still was a good enough person to stop and help us.
"Look, we're driving a 10-year old car that is sitting in a parking lot with a flat tire in the dead of night. He could tell by that we're nothing special. But here's a young man making millions of dollars, and he's got all this fame and glory, and he does this?"
