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A Confession.

I've gone back and forth with this for several years now. At first I was just like everyone else, but as I started to think about it more, and exposed myself to it more, I started to realize that something was different after a while. I had found myself starting to believe it, but I kept shooting it down.

"You're better than that!" I would say to myself every time I'd even start to fathom the possibility of it being true. And then I would continue on with my ways of the past, the only ways that I knew. It was so simple.

But every week, every day, something felt different. I mean, on the surface it was the same, but it just felt like something was changing, but I still didn't want to believe it. I guess it was just denial, maybe. Even now I can't seem to fully grasp the concept or believe it, every time I would doubt that it's actually true, I started thinking it through, and I found myself believing that it's actually more true every time I think about it.

Until one day, just recently, I had to come to grips with it. I couldn't live this lie anymore. I just had to come out and admit it. It is true. I hate that it's true. It still eats at me every day. I don't know how I can live with myself anymore. It's extremely confusing. I don't know how it happened exactly, or what instances specifically started to sway me this way, but now it's come full circle and I can't do anything about it anymore now that I've realized the reality of the situation.

So today, I need to come out. You guys are the first people I'm telling this to. I haven't told any of my friends yet. I haven't even told my parents yet. I'm afraid that they're not going to react well, particularly my father. He doesn't react well to this kind of stuff.

I don't know how else to put this, so I just have to come out and say it it. Ok, here it goes...

I like Tony Romo.

That's right, I like Tony Romo.

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I don't know how this happened. I don't know how I grew to like him, but I can't escape it anymore. I just can't keep lying to other people, and most importantly, myself anymore.

I actually like Tony Romo as a quarterback in the National Football League....GOD THAT'S SO HARD TO TYPE.

I hope you can all still accept me here. I hope you can still consider me one of you. I hope I can still join you guys every Friday on the corner as we get high as we burn Cowboys gear. I do sincerely apologize, it's hard to be a fan of the Giants and like the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.

We should get one thing straight though, I do like him as a QB, but I am not a "fan" of him. I still root for him to fail, obviously. As long as he's a Cowboy I never want to see him win. But the guy just gets so disrespected, so wrongly blamed for the Cowboys chokes as a team. Maybe it's all the scrutiny. Maybe it's being able to relate to the guy that everyone picks on because he's always screwing up. Maybe he really is an underdog in the grand scheme of things. He's really one of the top-flight Quarterbacks in the game today and nobody seems to want to admit it. But he just keeps having fantastic year after fantastic year, individually. He's just so....DAMN CONSISTENT!

Sure, he's thrown some crucial interceptions late in some big games. He's to blame for a lot of that. But in most of those games, the Cowboys wouldn't have even been in the game without him, and then the defense has a complete melt down, putting him in a situation where everyone's confidence is rattled and mental mistakes start being made by everyone. Keep in mind the crap-for-brains he's had as coaches.

D'OH! LISTEN TO ME! I sound like a god damn Cowboys fan! I can't take this!

But again, I still never want to see him actually win as a member of the Cowboys, of course. No, ideally I'd rather see the Cowboys cut Tony Romo at the age of 38 after their 3rd straight 0-16 season, and then he leads another team to a Super Bowl win and shuts everyone up about how he never won anything, and he goes into the Hall of Fame as a champion, as the Cowboys fade into obscurity without him and Jerruh Jones never builds a winning team again, as their fanbase starts to dwindle as we all laugh at all of the Cowboys' misfortune and suckiness. Hah! Laugh at the stupid Cowboys! Screw the Cowboys! To hell with the Cowboys!

But damn it, I like their quarterback.

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