Appearing on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Unleashed Friday afternoon, CBS Sports Chairman, Sean McManus, commented on the recent wave of criticism hurled at NFL analyst Tony Romo as well as a New York Post report that CBS executives staged an “intervention” last offseason with Romo about his broadcasting.
“An enormous amount of people have come up to me who have said to me, ‘We really like Tony Romo,’” McManus told Chris “Mad Dog Russo. “He’s different. He’s not your typical analyst. He is enthusiastic. He sometimes speaks more of a fan than even an analyst, which I think people like. So I think this is being overplayed.
Social media, as you know, tends to be very vitriolic and unkind and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And then when the mainstream media watches social media, they start ganging. … Can he get better? We can all get better.”
