{"id":296616,"date":"2025-08-17T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/296616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:57:15","slug":"how-tony-romos-career-ending-injury-rams-qb-matthew-staffords-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/296616\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tony Romo\u2019s career-ending injury &#038; Rams QB Matthew Stafford\u2019s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">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\u2019t even bother to x-ray him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I was a little less optimistic, which is odd to type. I told my father in a phone conversation, \u201cyou know Tony. This guy went back into a game with a punctured lung&#8230; the team needs to not take his word on this and do an x-ray to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">And, two days later, with Romo still in \u201cdiscomfort\u201d (an understatement if there ever was one), they did. The actual results weren\u2019t disclosed, but Todd Archer reports it\u2019s an L1 compression fracture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few minutes later, all seemed right with the world and Tony was begging to go back in.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,31727,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-296616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams-injuries","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115046819134655799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}