Cowboys ink Romo to six-year deal

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

DALLAS, United States (AFP) — The Dallas Cowboys inked quarterback Tony Romo to a six-year contract extension on Tuesday, which will keep him with the National Football League team through 2013.

Financial terms were not revealed, but the Dallas Morning news reported late Monday that the National Football League deal was worth 67.5 million dollars, including more than 30 million dollars in guaranteed money and an 11.5 million-dollar signing bonus.

Those numbers would make Romo's deal second-highest in Cowboys history, after the nine-year, 85.5 million-dollar contract Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman signed in 1998.

Romo said it wasn't the money, but the commitment of the team that mattered.

"I probably could have found a way to live off the money...