As former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo prepares for his new venture as a broadcaster on the lead NFL team for CBS Sports, his sudden jump to the booth left one former QB out of a job.

Romo replaced former Giants quarterback Phil Simms in the broadcast booth next to Jim Nantz. The move apparently caught Simms off-guard as his son Chris was the one who reportedly had to deliver the message instead of a CBS executive.

Chris Simms said as much during an episode of his Bleacher Report podcast "Simms & Lefkoe."

"You can't sit there as a normal person who's evaluated this and seen it happen before and go, 'They handled it like professionals,'" Chris Simms said. "It's been out there rumored for two weeks. I had to tell my dad first before CBS or anybody because I found out from an NFL insider.

"I forwarded the text message that I was sent and it basically said, 'Hey, listen, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Romo's being offered your dad's job on CBS. That sucks, I'm sorry.' And my dad was in Barbados, and I had to forward the text message to him to let him know."

CBS has denied this statement, saying that it informed Phil Simms of the decision before the announcement was made.

But Chris Simms, who ironically was drafted in the same draft in which Romo went undrafted, still feels as though his father was treated poorly.

"That's just not what you do to a good, hard-working employee that's been for 20 years been kind of the face of your football station. I think from that it probably does hurt," Chris Simms said. "He's not complaining. He's got two years left as far as money is concerned as the No. 1 team. He's got a few more years with Inside the NFL so he'll be doing that. "