Ex-Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has gained a swarm of fans in the NFL broadcast booth this year.

He's wowed listeners with his spot-on predictions, entertained them with bits like Thursday night's impromptu play-by-play of a cat, and tapped into some culture with a Dumb and Dumber reference the Internet loved.

Tony Romo has cemented himself as a legend with his impromptu, pitch-perfect, play-by-play commentary of that cat. — Nick Kosmider (@NickKosmider) October 27, 2017

Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones is among Romo's listening fans. Has Jones been able to catch a broadcast?

"I sure have," Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan's G-Bag Nation show [KRLD-FM]. "On the bye week I got to see the entire game. I'm trying not to miss them, and I record them and I enjoy it very much. It's like old times here. He's very similar to football, talking to him about football, the last umpteen years.

"There's no question he's gifted in this area."

Jerry Jones told @1053thefan that he tries not to miss @tonyromo broadcasts, really enjoys them: "No question he's gifted in this area." — Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) October 27, 2017

Jones was a big advocate for Romo when he played for the Cowboys, even continuing to support the vet last year while Dak Prescott carried the team to a 13-3 season as a rookie. When Romo retired in April, Jones expressed his excitement at the injury-prone quarterback's career pivot.

"He left everything he had on the field," Jones said at the time. "He will leave us with many great memories and a legacy of being, truly, one of the greatest players in Cowboys history. We are thrilled for him and his family that he will be able to continue working as a professional in the game he so dearly loves.

"He is a young man who is just getting started on a long journey in life. All the best my friend."

And the admiration is mutual. When Romo and wife Candice gave birth to their third son in September, they named the son none other than Jones McCoy Romo.

Romo missed a preseason broadcast run-through right after the birth but jumped right into the regular season to rave reviews.

Welcomed our third boy Jones Mccoy Romo into the world today! Ten fingers and ten toes. All healthy. Almost have my basketball team built pic.twitter.com/nO0DFXQKZK — Tony Romo (@tonyromo) August 23, 2017

Why does he think he has been so successful?

"I know how to get ready for a football game," Romo told Peter King of Sports Illustrated's MMQB this week. "I always knew how to prepare. ... Even when I was playing, I was trying to figure the game out."

Those thoughts translated seamlessly to the booth, he told King.

"As far as what I say ... I want people to feel when the game's on the line how important the play is," Romo said. "It's like, you're at dinner or in the bar with your buddy, and you look up at the game on TV and say, 'You gotta see this!' That's the way I want do the games.

"The goal is to talk to the guy having a beer next to you, just explain the game. And if I can do that, I've done my job."

Jerry thinks he has.

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