Tony Romo Joins Twitter In Fantastic Fashion, Is Heckled Mercilessly

Tony Romo is quite the eloquent public speaker, but apparently he doesn’t like to type all that much.

The quarterback, who in the last few weeks has taken a shot at the New England Patriots with a Deflategate joke and predicted his Dallas Cowboys will win the Super Bowl, was one of the few prominent NFL players without a Twitter account.

Romo changed all that Thursday night with a groundbreaking first tweet.

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Tony Romo has arrived, ladies and gentlemen.

We’re assuming that’s a reference to his jersey number, although he could just be a really big fan of a 2009 science fiction thriller about a rag doll living in a post-apocalyptic future.

Of course, Romo’s bold venture into social media also opened him up to the seedy underworld of Twitter trolls, and they didn’t pass up the opportunity.

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