This week, July 30 -- Eleven years ago, the moment that made Tony Romo famous as a broadcaster arrived during a playoff game on live national television, when he studied a formation, turned to Jim Nantz, and called the exact play New England was about to run before the snap. The clip went viral. It became shorthand for a kind of football intelligence that, the argument went, had never been seen from anyone sitting in a booth.

"No. I don't. There's too many."

He was responding to instructions for a heel-to-toe sobriety test.

NBC Sports reported Wednesday that police found an open bottle of alcohol inside Romo's vehicle during that same traffic stop, a detail that adds a more damaging dimension to a story that had, until now, centered on...