The Real Reason Carrie Underwood And Tony Romo Broke Up

When they first started dating, country star Carrie Underwood and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo seemed like a perfect match. The couple reportedly dated each other in early 2007, but broke up by October of the same year. Romo was Underwood's date to the Academy of Country Music Awards that year and they spent each other's birthdays together, per Entertainment Weekly. Although fans might never know what really happened between the two, there are mixed accounts about how they actually defined their relationship. For his part, Romo told Sports Illustrated after their reported breakup that he was "lucky" to get to know her and that they're "friends," per EW.

Underwood also maintained back in 2007 that they were never serious, mostly because Romo wanted to avoid Cowboys fans judging his gameplay (and her) if she was in the stadium during games. She said of speculation that they were a couple, "At one point it seemed like that's where it was headed. But point blank, he is about football. I don't know if it's that I'm not quite his type or whatever, but I don't think he's at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought that he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do well." But judging by comments she made later on, that might not have been the whole story.