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Tony Romo spent his entire 13-year career with the Dallas Cowboys and accomplished quite a bit.
He finished his career as one of the best quarterbacks in franchise history.
Yet he still carries one big regret for his career in Dallas.
"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," he said in an interview on Barstool Sports' "Pardon My Take" podcast.
"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.
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." The Cowboys made the playoffs a few times with Romo under center, but Dallas never got further than the divisional round.
He finished his career with a 2-4 record in the playoffs.
Romo's career came to a bit of a premature end due to a combination of injuries and the emergence of Dak Prescott in 2016.
However, he did have opportunities elsewhere after Dallas moved forward with Prescott.
Even still, he elected to retire.
"But at the end it was like, I could go somewhere else and do it," he said when asked how he decided on retirement.
"Because I was like, I gotta win a Super Bowl.
It's literally what you play the game for.
Nothing else matters.
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." Romo began the next phase of his football journey immediately, as he became CBS' lead NFL game analyst alongside Jim Nantz in 2017 and has served in that role ever since then.
Despite the fact he threw for the second-most passing yards in Cowboys history, racked up 248 touchdowns and compiled a 78-49 record, the lack of a Super Bowl still lingers for Romo.