Obsession over Tony Romo’s reporting weight shows that we can’t be more ready for football to begin.
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If you didn’t realize the NFL was officially back, you clearly weren’t on Twitter this weekend.
“Tony Romo is fat” tweets seemed to be just as prevalent as the exhilaration which followed Phil Mickelson’s improbable win at the British Open Sunday. You’d think Tony Romo was a heavyweight boxer based on the scrutiny over the alleged six extra pounds the franchise quarterback reported to camp carrying.
But while the quarterback’s conditioning (after only six weeks of training following offseason surgery) likely received elevated attention due to his team’s early reporting date, the fact that this many fans were this interested in an ultimately inconsequential detail on a Sunday in mid-July? We really can’t be more ready for the NFL preseason to begin.
After months of speculating, the answers to the league’s biggest offseason questions will finally start to find answers provided by players and coaches instead of analysts.
How soon will RGIII be ready to return from his knee injury? He’ll be in Richmond on Wednesday with the rest of the team to start answering that question.
What will the New England Patriots offense look like with all of its offseason personnel changes? The solution starts to become clearer Thursday.
By Saturday, every NFL franchise will be immersed in training camps. Finally, fans will have tangible information to pair with the past seven months of obsessing over their favorite franchise’s upcoming schedule.
Minus a major player getting suspended, nothing we glean from any individual camps this week is likely to provide much of a window into how they’re going to perform this season. There’s still nearly two weeks until the first preseason game. But for football-starved fans, seeing their favorite teams arriving to camp is certainly an eagerly-anticipated preview.
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