Tony romo facts

By DONOVAN MORGAN

FACTS

• Tony Romo is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. As a child, he ABMERED the legendary BRETT FARVE AND BORN IN San Diego, CALIFORNA

• . He threw for more than 300 yd in four of the first five games of the season and on November 29, in a 37–27 victory over the Green Bay Packers, notched his 30th touchdown pass and thereby broke Danny White's team single-season record for scoring passes

• TONY ROMO , IS the son of a Mexican American father and a mother of Polish and German descent, spent most of his childhood in southern Wisconsin, where he idolized Packers quarterback Brett FARVE,

• he was not recruited by the major college football teams and wound up attending Eastern Illinois University, a Division I-AA school in Charleston, Ill. At Eastern he was a three-time (2000–02) Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, and in his senior season he received the A AWARD FOR BESToffensive player.

• TONY ROMO WON THE IAA AWARD FOR BEST OFFENCES PLAYER