Shortly after Jordan Spieth came up just short of getting into Monday’s British Open playoff at St. Andrews, the Cowboys quarterback — one of Spieth’s Dallas-area fans and friends — wanted to shoot him an encouraging word after his first major setback of 2015, CBSSports.com reported .
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Of course, Romo knows about sports’ ups and downs over a 12-season NFL career. And even if he tries to push past and build on the low points, Twitter trolls are there to remind him.
A range of responses to Romo referenced his interceptions and Cowboy fans’ emotional roller-coaster. One tweeted a picture of Romo’s botched field-goal hold — in 2007. Appropriately, the picture was accompanied by the words “never forget”; the tweet has since been deleted and replaced by a semi-defense.
