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Bill Romanowski

Info & Stats: Former NFL Linebacker | CEO for Nutrition 53.

Photos: NFL Highlights

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Topics: First thing thought of Junior Seau’s death | Hurt his soul| Knows he could help guys like that | Battles against Junior | Junior Seau was the best linebacker to play in the 90’s…PERIOD | Things he dealt with emotionally | Thoughts of going to the Chargers | Why he picked Denver over San Diego | Didn’t know anything was wrong with Junior | Pat Bowlen’s thoughts on players lives after football | Life after football or neurological damages | Feelings of depression himself nearing retirement | Running a nutrition company is a different ‘high’ than football | Junior’s death is a wake up call | Trying to rationalize why this happened | Reaction to Roger Goodell’s decision | Everybody was a part of it | Cannot single one person out | Wanted to knock players out of the game every play.

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Romo’s thoughts on the New Orleans Saints bounty system: “This was an inside incentive program to make the defense better.”

Topics: Bounty program in New Orleans | I think the press has blown this way out of proportion | This should have stayed in their defensive room | This was a inside incentive program to make the defense better | Internal program | The snitches and media are the problem | Salary cap | Were playing football here Jimmy | Motivation | Ronnie Lott | Guess what? | This program was designed to get the players fired up | 09 Championship game | Has the game changed? | His hit on Kerry Collins was one of the best of his life | Guess what? | That hit on Collins would cost him a million bucks today | There are still organizations that are doing it the right way |

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Romo on if the Indianapolis Colts get rid of Peyton Manning: “You better be careful because he’s going to come back and haunt you.”

Topics: Worked out this morning | Have had 3 smoothies already | I just saw Jerome Bettis with a Pizza | He’d gain a pound if he ate a piece of pizza | Fitness | I do really care about people | Wearing his Super Bowl XXXII ring | The feeling of winning a Super Bowl was like a 30 minute orgasm | Worst feeling ever was losing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII | Barrett Robbins | Not having Robbins in the Super Bowl effected Rich Gannon | Still haunted by Super Bowl XXXVII | Oakland Raiders | Loved Al Davis | Dan Pastorini’s comments on Al Davis | If you can’t help Al Davis win a football game you didn’t exist to him | The Raiders were a dictatorship under Al | The Raiders new ownership | The Giants have more boar hunters than the Patriots | Boar hunting | Eli Manning showed me he was an elite | Thinks Peyton Manning will play again because the NFL is like a drug | What fires him up now | The best linebacker he’s ever seen is Ray Lewis | Patrick Willis might be able to match Ray | I look forward to this interview |

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Bill’s thoughts on when Kyle Orton takes the field: “It’s like oh God, its like... feels like someone died.”

Topics: San Francisco 49ers | The 49ers are for real | Josh Freeman is damn good and the Niners still slaughtered the Bucs | Buffalo and Detroit | Philadelphia Eagles | Michael Vick is getting hit from all over | Tim Tebow | Tebow! Tebow! | Tebow playing brought a different energy | When Kyle Orton takes the field it feels like someone died | Tim is a leader | Tebow being a virgin | Tebow’s stuff is not pretty but he finds a way to make plays | Health talk |

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Romo’s thoughts on if he played against Tim Tebow: “I would lay him out and put him into next year.”

Topics: Better than perfect Jim | Denver Broncos camp | He’d start Kyle Orton over Tim Tebow | Tebow is a wild card | Kyle Orton gives the Broncos the best shot to win | We don’t know if Tebow can play | Denver’s locker room right now | Veteran’s see what happens on the practice field | If he played against Tebow he’d have him messed up mentally | Thinks Tim Tebow is a winner | Thinks Tebow would fit in well with Miami | Donovan McNabb | McNabb is not in Washington because he’s lazy | Albert Haynesworth | Haynesworth in New England | Haynesworth turned into a big spoiled b*tch crybaby in Washington | Welcome to the NFL moments | Hitting Roger Craig | I don’t have easy practices in my playbook | The nature of training camps are fights | A lot of testosterone in locker rooms | Protein | Protein being so important to the body | The Jim Rome Smoothie | Jim inspired the smoothie | Jim gets free smoothies for the rest of his life |

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Romo on Super Bowl XLV: “Ben Roethlisberger’s karma is going to hit him; he did things to young women that are bad.”

Topics: Brought Jim a shake | His interview with Jim last year on Radio Row | Jim thought Romo might break his head | Romo loves people that knows what their talking about | Drinking protein | Super Bowl XLV is a great matchup | Ben Roethlisberger doing bad things to women will come back to get him | The Super Bowl is not about a party | Playing with the Raiders in the Super Bowl and some players not taking it serious | Losing the Super Bowl against Tampa Bay still makes him mad | Al Davis is awesome | Letting Al Davis down | How a team doesn’t stay down for the Super Bowl | Ben Roethlisberger’s karma | Thinks Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback in the league | The Packers need to go 4 or 5 wide | Pittsburgh Steelers play tough football | Mike Tomlin | Violent football | Clay Matthews is a little more finesse game than the Steelers | Charles Woodson | Woodson growing up | Ronnie Lott telling Romo to tell Charles Woodson to straighten up his act | Woodson not respecting the game when he was younger | Charles respects the game now | Trying to mentor Woodson |

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Topics: NFL cracking down on dangerous hits | People love football because it’s violent | Fans want to see big hits | Does not like what the league’s doing | You have non football people making football decisions | If you don’t want to get hurt don’t play | I played because I liked knocking the crap out of people | You learn how to tackle a certain way | It’s more about the injuries than the hits | Didn’t think the hits this past weekend were bad; that was really good football | The Meriweather hit was questionable | You are coached to hit; how do you coach them to slowdown? | The NFL will make money on the hard hits when they sell the highlights | There’s more awareness about concussions | Bottom line, the game of football is not good for you or your brain | Long term effects of concussions | The double standard of offensive player v. defensive | I guess it’s alright for running backs to deliver a blow | Dirty players | Rodney Harrison was the last real dirty guy to leave the game | The league warned him about suspension for his hits | TV Project, Blue Mountain State | Poking guys eyes out | Was going to kill a guy once in a game |

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Topics: Looking back at the “dirty” plays in his career | Pushing it to the level of a dirty player | Where the rage came from | Loving the guys he played with | The day his team got beaten by the Minn. Vikings; hurting a fellow teammate | Regretting the incident | Being sued | Belief in honesty and morality, but messing up at times | Decision to use ‘roids | Taking it for the edge and recovery from injuries | Leaving the Raiders; looking for nutritional supplements | Nutrition53.com

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