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When great isn't enough

By Tim Keown
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

This story appears in the Sept. 21 issue of ESPN The Magazine. I don't think about where I've been and where I'm going. I've never been someone to look at myself from a distance, you know? "Hey, let's look at what's going on with me." Nah. The best way I can explain it is this: I don't think I'll ever call myself by my own name. "Hey, Tony Romo says ... " -Tony Romo Tony Romo, accidental existentialist. He has his reasons, of course -- reasons he avoids self-reflection, reasons he considers ...

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