playbooks can be hundreds or thousands of pages long, and, for each play, the Q.B. It is not surprising that the pioneer of this divinatory style of play-calling is an ex-quarterback. It seemed that, even when Romo was wrong, he was right. Twice, the offensive team did something other than what Romo predicted, and both times the results were poor-one play ended with an incomplete pass, and the other with a turnover. “Watch this safety! If he comes down, it’s a good chance he’s throwing out there!” The safety came down, and the throw, from the Patriots’ quarterback, Tom Brady, to Gronkowski, was complete. “Gronk is out wide!” he said at one point, referring to the Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski. He tabbed a coming blitz by the defense and how many people would be blitzing.

(On Twitter, he was dubbed Romostradamus.) He predicted passes to specific players in specific areas. On play after play-fifteen, in all-Romo described what he thought was about to unfold he guessed correctly thirteen times. championship game between the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs. But his prophetic abilities were on particularly fine display in the recent A.F.C. Romo, who retired two years ago, after a very good but not outstanding career with the Cowboys, has been doing this since he first became a broadcaster, last year. playoff games, Tony Romo, a former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who will call the Super Bowl on Sunday as an analyst for CBS, has delighted football fans by doing something else: telling them what they’re about to see. Traditionally, in sports broadcasting, a color commentator’s job is to explain to viewers what they just saw.

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