I dated a CFL football player once. His break up excuse was because "a girlfriend is too much of a distraction - I need to focus on football".

Lame. But anyways, it sounds like country singer Carrie Underwood heard the same words from Dallas Cowboy QB Tony Romo. In this week's Entertainment Weekly with Carrie on the cover, she says about Romo, "...point blank, he is all about football. I don't know if it's that I'm not quite his type or whatever, but I don't think he's at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought that he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do well."

What is with that? Carrie could manage to juggle a fast-paced, pressured career in music, but Tony can't handle a relationship and his job at the same time? Maybe it's that multi-tasking thing - aren't women supposed to be better
at juggling more than one thing at once? According to this Wall Street Journal article, a 2003 survey by political scientists at Rutgers University found three-quarters of women think women are better at multitasking than men and one-third of men agreed.

Cowboys opponents should take that cue. If they want to find Romo's weakness, they should figure out how to distract him with something off the field. Find some girl to come forward and claim her child is Romo's or something...that would do it!

  
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Quotes from an interview from Yahoo! Sports with Seattle Seahawks quarterback  Matt Hasselbeck:

Hasselbeck: The last concert I went to with my wife was to see Tim McGraw. But during training camp, our kicker, Josh Brown, convinced me to go to a Carrie Underwood concert in Spokane, Wash. That was pretty embarrassing, but I was his wing man because he's got this big crush on her. It was a pleasant surprise. The concert was pretty good … but the defensive linemen got on me pretty good about that. It's a little unusual for two dudes to go to a Carrie Underwood concert.

Cole: So what happened with Brown and Underwood?

Hasselbeck: We end up getting backstage and he got a chance to talk to her. They're both from Oklahoma, so they seemed to hit it off. She grew up a Cowboys fan, but I think she was a little more of a Seahawks fan by the end of the conversation. I think Josh won her over. But then she played in Puyallup and he chickened out and didn't go and I don't think he called her. I don't know what happened there, but I definitely want to know.

Another potential athlete-celebrity relationship?  Maybe.  But this doesn't do much for that never-die perception that "kickers are gay" - even though he was supposedly hitting on Carrie.  1.  He obviously watches American Idol.  2.  He listens to Carrie Underwood.  3.  He takes another guy with him to a Carrie Underwood concert.