Which Tony Romo will be calling the game for CBS?

The street to the Tremendous Bowl will undergo Kansas Metropolis on Sunday afternoon, with the Chiefs taking up the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium within the AFC championship.

Calling the sport can be play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and analyst Tony Romo, who’re coming off among the finest video games in NFL historical past — the Chiefs’ extra time win towards Josh Allen and the Buffalo Payments final week within the divisional spherical.

Romo, in his fifth yr broadcasting NFL video games for CBS, was each bit as enthusiastic as you’d count on for such an thrilling recreation. “Wow, that is going to be actually tough now,” Romo mentioned because the Payments confronted a protracted fourth down with simply two minutes remaining. When Allen threw a landing strike on the very subsequent play to Gabriel Davis, a shocked Romo mentioned, “That is… it is simply not possible.”

“Romo’s giddiness may be corny,” wrote The Ringer’s Brian Curtis. “Giddiness can be Romo’s superpower. It permits him to erase the gap between the announcer and the fan. It lets him get one over on the Professor Soccer mannequin of announcer that turned customary during the last decade.”

However Romo was additionally uncharacteristically sloppy, was stingy along with his trademark perception, and struggled at instances to finish his personal ideas as the sport neared its conclusion. As Curtis identified, Romo supplied little evaluation on how and why Buffalo’s protection imploded, permitting a 64-yard landing strike to Chiefs extensive receiver Tyreek Hill with only one minute remaining within the recreation. Romo additionally whiffed on the game-winning landing from Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelce, which was clearly a catch to everybody in America besides Romo.

“I do not suppose it is over, Jim!” Romo screamed, as CBS confirmed replays making it clear the sport was over.

“Romo’s very best quality is his enthusiasm, however he was almost incoherent at instances on Sunday, simply everywhere,” wrote New York Put up media columnist Andrew Marchand. “Some Sundays this works — on this one it didn’t.”

Examine that Romo to the one followers heard the earlier week, when he did an distinctive job explaining why Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott wasn’t capable of spike the soccer with so little time remaining on the clock throughout their first-round playoff loss to the 49ers .

“The umpire has to the touch the ball!” Romo mentioned. “Dak would not understand, these guys do not realize he has to the touch the ball!”

Count on extra enthusiasm from Romo throughout Sunday afternoon’s recreation, with Mahomes dealing with off towards younger Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. The final time the Bengals gained in Kansas Metropolis was 2012, thought they did defeat the Chiefs 34-31 again in Week 17 in a recreation known as by … Tony Romo.

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