A few minutes later, all seemed right with the world and Tony was begging to go back in. During his post-game press conference he talked about dodging a bullet and he felt good enough that the team didn’t even bother to x-ray him.
I was a little less optimistic, which is odd to type. I told my father in a phone conversation, “you know Tony. This guy went back into a game with a punctured lung… the team needs to not take his word on this and do an x-ray to be safe.”
And, two days later, with Romo still in “discomfort” (an understatement if there ever was one), they did. The actual results weren’t disclosed, but Todd Archer reports it’s an L1 compression fracture.