debutyear status statvalue birth_date statseason statweek heightin image_size heightft undraftedyear number image college debutteam name statlabel caption birth_place nfl weight position highschool article_title currentteam
2004 active 4,210 2,743 65.2 33,270 242 -- 110 97.6 21 april 1980 2014 17 2 250 6 2003 9 tony romo before 2008 pro bowl.jpeg eastern illinois dallas cowboys tony romo pass int passer rating attempts pass completions percentage passing yards td -- romo before the 2008 pro bowl san diego , california 2505354 230 quarterback burlington -lrb- wi -rrb- tony romo
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tony romo

antonio ramiro `` tony '' romo -lrb- born april 21 , 1980 -rrb- is an american football quarterback for the dallas cowboys of the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- .
he played college football for eastern illinois university , an ncaa division i-aa school .
at eastern illinois , romo won the walter payton award in 2002 , and led the panthers football team to an ohio valley conference championship in 2001 .
not selected in the 2003 nfl draft , romo signed as a free agent with the dallas cowboys .
after two seasons as a holder , romo replaced the cowboys ' previous starting quarterback drew bledsoe during a game against the new york giants in the 2006 season .
romo was a pro bowl selection for the 2006 , 2007 , 2009 and 2014 seasons , all seasons in which the dallas cowboys made the playoffs .
he has also broken dallas cowboys team records including most games with at least 300 passing yards and games with three or more touchdown passes .
since 2006 , romo has a higher passer rating than any other nfl quarterback in the 4th quarter .
