There’s this whole thing about the path not chosen. For Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, it’s probably a good thing he decided to head in another direction.
The Pro Bowl signal caller opened up about some frustrating times early in his Cowboys career — frustrations that nearly forced him to give up football in order to seek out a career as an assistant golf club professional in Wisconsin:
“I was just struggling for about three days,” Romo told pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Dallas, via the Dallas Morning News. “I remember sitting in my hotel room right there and I was so pent up with anxiety and everything was just coming to a head and it was like, ‘I can’t take it.’ It was just so much. My whole life felt like it was on this moment.
That’s when I sat in bed and I just prayed to the Lord, and this was a very defining moment for me. I was like, If I’m not meant to be the quarterback here or play quarterback in the NFL, that’s fine. Then I’m going to go back and be a really good assistant golf club professional back in Burlington, Wisconsin.”
For those of you who might not remember, Romo went undrafted out of Eastern Illinois in 2004 before acting as practice fodder for the Cowboys during his first two seasons in the NFL.
It wasn’t until an injury to Drew Bledsoe in October of 2006 until Romo got his opportunity.
While the quarterback has proven himself to have some solid ability on the golf course, it’s readily apparent that he made the right choice in sticking to football.
It really is one of those things that pretty much everyone goes through at one point in life. For Romo, the decision to continue his football career couldn’t have worked out better.
In 12 seasons with Dallas, he holds the franchise records in passing yards and touchdown passes — something that’s quite an accomplishment given the greats who have tossed the ball around the yard in Big D.