What is the price of landing a date with Gisele Bundchen? That would be one football, at least according to Tony Romo.
The CBS analyst is catching heat for joking that the fan who wound up with Brady’s 600th career touchdown pass should’ve asked for a date with the supermodel in exchange for giving up the piece of memorabilia. Romo’s strange one-person role play is transcribed below:
‘He’s like, ‘We need that ball. That’s 600.’
‘What? Really? A date with Gisele! A date with Gisele, and I’m in!’
‘OK, Tom will do it. One time. You got it.’
Mike Evans accidently gave Tom Brady's 600 TD game ball to a fan and they worked the entire break to try to get it back from the fan.
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 24, 2021
Tony Romo suggested they'll give the fan a date with Gisele 🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/oIYu1xmcdu
This is Romo’s second run with semi-controversy in two weeks. While on the call for Patriots-Cowboys last Sunday, he and Jim Nantz descended into a cringeworthy gabfest following a segment about cancer patients enjoying a spa day at Gillette Stadium. Romo seemed to try and make a joke about pedicures, before stopping himself mid-sentence.
Or combusting. One of the two.
“I don’t … feed … my … dogs … what is it? Pedi? Pediatric kids?,” Romo said.
Romo’s remark about trading memorabilia for a date with Gisele is much more juvenile than offensive. It’s the kind of thing that friends of all sexual orientations discuss with their friends. "Oh, what I would do for a night with [insert celebrity smoke show here].”
Still, the insinuation — if you care to parse it that deeply — suggests that women are objects meant to be traded.
One of Romo’s signature schticks appears to be providing zany commentary whenever the cameras catch two people talking. The problem is, he’s not very clever. Romo’s riffs are cringe.
Here’s what he said last week when replay showed Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones embracing before the game: “They’re like, ‘Hey ... oh you’re here! Let’s go! Should we sit together? Yes. Get in there. Let the big guy get his hands on ya,’” Romo said.
Strange, right?
At one point, Romo’s proclivity for rambling off-script could lead to more trouble than a few tweets. He’s lucky he made his remark about Gisele in the middle of a boring blowout against the Bears.
The reaction would be amplified if he made a similar kind of joke while commentating a big playoff game. CBS execs are almost certainly hoping Sunday isn’t a harbinger of what’s to come.
