I liked Romo in his first season but last season i had enough! While it is true that he has a knack of predicting a play coming up his overabundance of energy during the playcalling just simply gets on my nerves after a while. Mad Dog Russo also can't stand him so i'm not alone! lol
For me the best one of that bunch of the late John Madden. Boom!
Romo does have football savant qualities/tendencies, and I can understand where you are coming from because he often sounds like a giddy football nerd, especially with his catchphrase, just before the ball is snapped on a big play- "here we go!!!!!!!! However I think his enthusiasm and energy for watching football is genuine. He may need to tone it down a tad, but I think CBS producers encourage the opposite- for him to be overtly theatrical. Madden had some of the same qualities as Romo, yelling out his own catchphrases like "boom!" after a big hit. His style was a bit more folksy and he endeared Americans by talking about food, widely popularizing turducken on Thanksgiving. If it were not for Madden millions of Americans wouldn't know what the fuck turducken is, and turducken sales would not have skyrocketed as they since have around Thanksgiving.
en.m.wikipedia.org
On a December day in 1996, a New Orleans butcher introduced a local-favorite dish to the legendary coach and broadcaster. Neither of their lives would be the same.
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"The turducken was popularized in America by
John Madden, who evangelized about the unusual dish during
NFL Thanksgiving Day games and, later,
Monday Night Football broadcasts. On one occasion, the commentator sawed through a turducken with his bare hand, live in the booth, to demonstrate the turducken's contents."