Casa Romo

Golfin' Tony's A Homeowner

Mike Fisher -- DB.com

The business of football, and how it affects one’s socioeconomic habits, is like any other business. You get job, maybe supplement that by falling in love, and the next thing you know, you move out of the bachelor-pad condo and into a McMansion in Cottonwood Valley just a sand wedge from the 17^th green.

Or, at least that’s what you do if you are Tony Romo.

DallasBasketball.com has it on good authority (our way of blaming somebody else if the scoop turns out to be untrue) that Romo is leaving his condo near the Galleria (where a co-tenant is Marion Barber) to instead become a real-live grown-up homeowner. After some deliberation, we’ve decided to not release the address of the luxe pad that is his target; we’d hate to turn his prospective new front yard into an “American Idol’’-tryouts mob scene. (Nor do we want vegan vixen Carrie Underwood sneaking through the security gates for a catfight with meat-eating Jessica Simpson. No, wait, maybe we do. …)

Anyway, all is about to be right with the Romessica world. Jess is peddling beer and Tony is closer to a golf course … I mean, closer to the team’s Valley Ranch headquarters. It’s big-time security over in this ‘burb, gatekeepers everywhere. And it is about golf. When he’s not focusing on Super Bowls and whatnot, the swimming pool in the backyard of his $700,000 “Spanish Mediterranean’’ home (5,551 square feet, five bedrooms, a gameroom, a wet bar, a study and a three-car garage) is near the Cottonwood course, where they used to play the first two rounds of the Byron Nelson. It’s also just a couple of long fairway drives from the TPC.

Oh, and if Tony and his frequent gal-pal guest ever needs counseling through osmosis, Tony’s new house is right down the street from where Dr. Phil used to live. Or, they can just walk down to Herschel Walker’s place; he’s all into psychology and stuff now, too. 

PS: The last time I played Realtor, Avery Johnson was my client. As was the case then, I now pass the baton over to D Magazine's DallasDirt, where it belongs.

10am aug 20 2008