Thursday, December 28, 2006

NBC Is Not Your Pimp, Antonio


Once again, I'm offering you relationship advice, Antonio Romo (or as The Man likes to call you, Tony Romo). If you knew what was good for you, you would listen up.

NBC put you on blast on Christmas Day, Antonio. Not only did you have to suffer the indignity of being exposed as the second best Mexican quarterback in the NFL, NBC showed the world that you have absolutely no game. Zero. They had to "induce" your dream girl, Carrie Underwood, to come see the national viewing audience you play on Christmas day.

Did you think it was you, Antonio?

Sure, you're young, handsome and rich, but let me give you a dose of reality. Carrie just got out of a long term relationship. She kissed some young, handsome dude at the Billboard Music Awards a few weeks ago. And the cameras revealed ZERO body chemistry between you and Carrie (although Romo was grinning like a jackal, Carrie maintained stiff arm distance at all times). That girl doesn't want you, boy.

Instead she is after the best mate for a trophy girl like herself. And that man's name is spelled P-U-B-L-I-C-I-T-Y. Do you think Al and John wanted to discuss Carrie Underwood? You think she was discussed in the production meetings right between 3rd down conversions and crossing routes? Who paid for those box seats? Who made sure the cameras were watching for a mystery visitor with a field pass?

Instead, it was a thinly veiled staging. NBC gets to appeal to the ladies already intrigued by your faux relationship with Jessica Simpson that might be stuck watching football with the family. (BTW, the latest is that your fake girlfriend Jessica was passed over by her crush, John Mayer, for Alicia Keys.) And Carrie gets an audience bigger than her country music audience to announce herself as an "it" girl.

It's sad that NBC has to play pimp matchmaker for you, but Antonio, I'm not hating. If you can hit, hit it. From the back, from the side, all that. But don't fall for the okey doke. Maybe you were joking when you told a reporter that you were dating Underwood or maybe even Carrie told you that ya'll were a couple. But Underwood is using you, Romo. And she'll probably just leave you for Derek Jeter first chance she gets.

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