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Why Tony Romo won’t let his sons play football until 8th grade, why he really retired

Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has three sons — Hawkins, Rivers and Jones — but will not allow them to play pee wee tackle football.

Romo sat down with Dr. Phil on his new “Phil’s in the Blanks” podcast and said his sons couldn’t play tackle football until the eighth grade.

And it has nothing do with a fear of concussions.

“I don’t think I’ll ever discourage them from doing anything. Like to me, it goes back to what you said, ‘if you really like this go play it’,” Romo said.