Outrage Mob Swarms Tony Romo Over Joke About Tom Brady’s Wife Gisele and I Have Thoughts – Opinion

For a variety of reasons, including the fact that it’s too painful to watch the Carolina Panthers year after year as well as being so over the ongoing “Woke Mafia” era, I don’t watch a lot of NFL games anymore. But because I write to put food on the table, sometimes stories about what happens at the games land on my desk, with some being interesting enough to be put in the “under further review” stack, to use a phrase heard often from the referees.

Such was the case with a joke former Dallas Cowboys quarterback turned-CBS News NFL sports commentator Tony Romo made about Tampa Bay Bucs QB Tom Brady’s wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, during the Sunday game between the Bucs and the Chicago Bears, which was played in Tampa.

If you’ve watched Romo call a game, you may be of the mindset I have in that he is a delight to listen to. You can tell he really gets into it, and it’s wild to hear him call a play well before it even happens and then see it play out. He really knows his stuff and enjoys what he does, which you can’t help but appreciate – especially in comparison to hearing Troy Aikman’s and Joe Bucks’ insufferably annoying commentary on the Fox broadcasts, which I often mute when I do click over to watch a game.

In any case, Brady threw 600th touchdown pass during the game. The Bucs’ on-the field staff needed to sweet talk to the Bucs fan Mike Evans who caught it.

Romo, along with his colleague Jim Nantz, were discussing ideas for Bucs to persuade the fan to return the ball. Romo’s suggestion was a date with Bündchen, joking that Brady would be up for it as long as he could get that historic football back. You can watch the video.

The Bucs had to negotiate to get Brady’s 600th TD ball back from a fan 😂 pic.twitter.com/31WAjBJVfU

— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) October 24, 2021

Now I didn’t watch this game, but if I had and had heard that, I’d have laughed in the spirit it was intended. Some Twitter blue checks and smaller accounts were fakefended after Brady suggested that he trade his date with his wife in exchange for the ball.

Tony Romo says Tom Brady might be open to selling Gisele for a cheap football to some random fan.

— McNeil (@Reflog_18) October 24, 2021

McNeil was later unable to hear what Romo said, despite having been told so. wrote, “[Ball goes into stands] Tony Romo: “I’d accept nothing less than sex with that players wife to give that ball back.”

Yahoo Sports columnist Shalise Manza Young was also upset, and took to the Twitter machine where she falsely proclaimed that Romo said the fan “should get a night with Gisele,” which, if he’d actually said might make the outrage a little more understandable:

Although it is not likely that this column would be published, the sheer number of people who feel the Bucs fans gave their 600TD ball back deserves a night with Gisele. You guys literally pimp your spouses/SOs to get memorabilia. Really?

— shalise manza young (@shalisemyoung) October 25, 2021

Even though they are young, they still have a lot to offer. huge fanFormer ESPN commentator Jemele HillShe stated that she was unlikely to express her anger in a column. Unfortunately, however, she decided to add to her ideas in an effort not to make the discussion more boring. In it, Young described Romo’s remarks as “creepy” and “crude”:

Gisele Bündchen is an incredibly accomplished woman, and in many parts of the world, she is more well-known and recognizable than her husband. A staunch environmentalist and activist for many other causes, she is also a businesswoman, mother, best-selling author, and entrepreneur.

But in an instant Sunday, she was reduced to a piece of property that should be passed around like a bowl of Halloween candy for … a piece of memorabilia.

[…]

The implication that Brady owned his wife was unseemly.

For those of you who don’t want to click to read the full piece – where a major amount of leaps in logic had to be made, I completely understand. After all, that’s what my colleagues and I are here for.

The “outrage” over these nontroversies surrounding certain comments/jokes or whatever made about women just needs to go away and die a painful, fiery death. Terry Bradshaw, for his compliments on Erin Andrews’s outfit, was subject to some heat just a few months ago. In addition to the report,(which was what I did, and I agree with Bradshaw in both cases).

These matters are important because you need to see the comments within context before making any judgments. Also, you need to think about the commenter. Next, take a moment to reflect on the comments for 30 seconds. Most people will either shrug off the comments or laugh in the same way they intended.

The vast majority of what we see people get “outraged” over as a society, anyway, is overblown and that’s true as well for various sports controversies as well. But what makes it particularly frustrating for women is when other women (and sometimes men, too) make something out of nothing and in the process infantilize women to the point people are scared as hell to utter one word about them unless it’s someone gushing with praise.

There are a lot of things for people to get outraged about in this country like, for example, the sexual assault that happened to a young female student in Loudoun County that the county school board tried to cover up and that the father’s understandable aggressive reaction to was in part used as the basis for a letter written by the National School Boards Association urging federal involvement in investigating parents as possible “domestic terrorists” – which Biden’s DOJ proceed to act upon.

That’sThis is a story that deserves a lot of ridicule. Romo’s harmless joke? You’re wrong.

It’s enough.

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