Posted by Dave as Dallas Cowboys, NFL at 10:05 PM CST on January 21st, 2009

Most of Dallas Nation isn’t happy with the Cowboys right now, and now a former player and Hall of Famer, Troy Aikman, is lining up to callout Dallas’s new franchise quarterback.
His beef? That Romo needs to start thinking about how he’s viewed in the media, and that he needs to take football more seriously.
“I think maybe things happened so quickly for Tony in terms of obscurity to all of a sudden national spotlight that he hasn’t fully grasped what being the Cowboys quarterback is all about,” Aikman said to Irvin. “And you don’t go to Cabo the week before a playoff game. You just don’t do it.
“It didn’t take away from his preparations. I know that. I mean, everything he says is I think accurate. I don’t think that had any bearing.
“But to say, ‘I don’t worry about perception,’ you better worry about perception, because it’s a big part of making it through some very difficult times.”
Tony Romo’s retort?
“You never win the big one until you win the big one. Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin were fired before they ended up going on their playoff run last year and winning the Super Bowl. Three games before the playoffs, neither one of them were coming back.
“So, believe me, the NFL is such a reality show. Week to week, you’re the best player in the league to the worst player in the league. It all depends on what you’ve done for me lately.”
This goes right along with some of the other things Aikman didn’t approve of while playing with Michael Irvin, namely getting cracked out on drugs, having multiple children with different women, and making up stories that you weren’t robbed because the gunmen were Cowboys fans.