{"id":5006,"date":"2013-09-08T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2013-09-08T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:11:35","slug":"tony-romo-returns-to-week-1-game-against-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/09\/08\/tony-romo-returns-to-week-1-game-against-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo returns to Week 1 game against Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5007\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5007\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/tonyromoinjury.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/tonyromoinjury.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/tonyromoinjury-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/tonyromoinjury-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/tonyromoinjury-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys signed quarterback Tony Romo to a $108 million contract this past off-season. It took all of two quarters for Romo to leave a game with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Romo was hit in the ribs by two Giant defenders and went down. He was helped off the field and later seen grimacing on the sidelines before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Orton came in for Romo and would play if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Romo practiced before the second half and the Cowboys are saying he simply had the wind knocked out of him. He started the third quarter for the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Romo has dealt with rib injuries before. In 2011 he suffered a broken rib in Week 2 and played the rest of the season. Romo has played all 16 games in three of the last four seasons. He missed 10 games in 2010 after suffering a broken left clavicle against the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys signed quarterback Tony Romo to a $108 million contract this past off-season. It took all of two quarters for Romo to leave a game with an injury. Romo was hit in the ribs by two Giant defenders and went down. He was helped off the field and later seen grimacing on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}