Romo's Admiration for Favre Confirmed!

By TODD ARCHER / The Dallas Morning News (partial reprint)

...To Romo, Thursday night's meeting at Texas Stadium between the Cowboys and Green Bay is about NFC supremacy and home-field advantage in the playoffs, so the kid from Burlington, Wis., did his best to downplay the Favre idolization storyline during the week.

"I know what you're trying to get at," said Romo, who watched from a buddy's house when the Packers beat New England in Super Bowl XXXI. "I understand the angle and it's nice and fun, but I have to beat the guy this week. At the end of the day, I don't want him to pass for 365 yards against us. That's the bottom line. I'll root for him on every other game."

Jason Witten, who has worked Romo's football camps in Burlington in the off-season, and Steve Tenhagen, Romo's favorite receiver in high school, know better.

"The truth is, he loved him," Witten said. Said Tenhagen, "He's got a whole lot of people believing he's not much of a fan. I think he's doing a good job of downplaying the situation." Romo met Favre two years ago at the Packers' quarterback's golf tournament in Tunica, Miss., thanks to former teammate Marco Rivera, who played with Favre in Green Bay. "Brett came over and I introduced him to everybody at the table and Tony's like, 'Hey, Brett, nice to meet you,' playing it off," Rivera said. "I was thinking to myself, 'Oh, if he could jump across this table.' "

The way Romo tells it – at least this week – he was more of a John Elway fan when he was younger, even rooting for Denver to win Super Bowl XXXII against Favre's Packers because he is a traditionalist.

Also this - "The truth is, he loved (Favre)," Witten told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "He can imitate him, he can do all that stuff. He's done a good job of relaxing and understanding where he's at. I think he's playing it off pretty good. But that's his hero."

Romo has been playing down admiration for Favre because the two will be locked in an important game Thursday night featuring the NFC's two best teams, both 10-1. He presumably doesn't want to come off as too much of a Favre fan when his job is to beat him.

I originally touched on this whole story in my post below. I understand the concept of downplaying your admiration for a player - a bit, especially as Romo is a young pup. But a real man would have admitted that it was true and just go with it. What did I tell you? Come on people - what's on Passion = Truth is...the truth!