Overview
- CBS announced Friday that it and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways, ending his nine-year run as the network’s lead NFL game analyst.
- Romo was arrested following a traffic stop on July 23 and pleaded no contest to an operating-while-intoxicated charge on Sept. 1, receiving a six-month license suspension, fines and court-ordered alcohol treatment and ignition-interlock requirements.
- In public statements Romo said multiple back surgeries led to dependence on pain medication and an over-reliance on alcohol, and he said he will take time off to focus on treatment and his family.
- Romo entered the season with roughly four years and about $72 million left on his CBS contract and reporting says the parties likely reached a settlement to resolve remaining obligations, though no financial terms have been confirmed.
- The network has kept J.J. Watt in the lead booth with Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson for the rest of the season, a move that stabilizes CBS’s top broadcast team and shifts questions about advertiser relations and future analyst hiring to the league and networks.