Satire: Tony Romo Regrets Eating Greasy Fried Chicken During Crucial Field-Goal Attempt

I hesitated for a moment about posting this from The Onion, even though I am a Seattle Seahawks fan. Seattle didn't deserve to win that game. I felt really bad for Romo. I can't imagine what it must feel like to be him right now, to know that his team is sitting at home for the rest of the playoffs because he couldn't handle the snap on a routine field goal attempt.

But then I said to myself, "Self, who the hell cares. It's not like Romo reads IOC."

So there you have it.

Tony Romo Regrets Eating Greasy Fried Chicken During Crucial Field-Goal Attempt

DALLAS—Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, whose bobbling of the snap on a crucial fourth-quarter field goal ended the season for Dallas, took full responsibility for the gaffe Wednesday by admitting he should not have been eating a bucket of grease-covered fried chicken while play was in progress. "I keep running through it in my mind—Martin Gramatica lines up the kick, I kneel and put down my bucket of chicken with my left hand, I transfer the chicken leg in my right hand to my mouth to hold it there, I signal for the snap, and the ball slips right off my fingers," Romo told reporters while cleaning out his locker at the Cowboy's practice facility. "It could easily have been the chicken grease, which sickens me—this was a play we'd run a hundred times in practice. But this time I let the chicken get in the way." Romo promised to make improving his ball- and fried-chicken-handling skills a priority in the offseason.

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