Tony Romo reveals one big regret about Cowboys career

Pro Football Reference shows that retired quarterback and current NFL in-game analyst Tony Romo will enter September as the Dallas Cowboys' all-time leader in career regular-season passing touchdowns (248).

While Romo is, statistically speaking, one of the greatest offensive players in Cowboys history, he admitted during a recent appearance on the "Pardon My Take" program that he laments the fact that he never won the final game of a season while serving as Dallas' QB1.

Tony Romo's "only regret" about his Cowboys tenure is understandable

"I'm not a guy with big regrets, I guess you could say. The only regret I guess I would have is that... my job was to bring a Super Bowl to Dallas, and I didn't do it," Romo said, per RJ Ochoa of Blogging The Boys. "So that always sticks with me a little bit. Because you give your whole body, heart, soul, everything into it. And you just wanted that for... all the fans. (Cowboys owners) The Joneses. For everybody that you're around. And so that one always sticks with me a little bit just because I had that opportunity and just wasn't able to do it. So that part of it kind of still... sits there." 

Of course, Romo alone can't be blamed for the Cowboys' lack of an NFC Championship Game appearance since they won the Super Bowl in January 1996 under current owner and general manager Jerry Jones. That said, Romo was responsible for a disappointing 2-4 playoff record while with the Cowboys from 2003 through the 2016 season. He suffered a 26-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers in his final postseason start in January 2015.

Tony Romo reflects on the end of his career

As Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk noted, Romo suffered a back injury in the summer of 2016 and then lost the Dallas starting job to then-rookie Dak Prescott. Romo later retired after the 2016 season at the age of 37.

"But at the end it was like... I could go somewhere else and do it. Because I was like, I gotta win a Super Bowl. It's literally what you play the game for. Nothing else matters," Romo continued. "And it just was like... but would that be the same? If I went somewhere else and did it? Because at that point, I'd known the game at such a high level. My last 20, 25 games, we were pretty successful. When healthy. But I was getting injured more often. Body breaks down in some ways through the years. ...I think just... it was as simple as it just wouldn't feel as... important... it would be important to me, but it was for the people I was around. All the fans that we had."

It sounds like Romo doesn't regret not chasing a ring with a different team in 2017. His run as CBS' lead in-game analyst has been filled with ups and downs, but he nevertheless will once again be tasked with working the network's biggest matchups later this year.