Dallas QB Tony Romo's Fantasy Football Convention Gets Restraining Order Against NFL

DALLAS, TX -- This could be Dallas' answer to Deflategate.

Dallas quarterback Tony Romo was granted a temporary restraining order against the NFL preventing the league from interfering with his 2015 fantasy football convention, ESPN reported on Wednesday.

Romo is part owner of Fan Expo, the group which had hoped to stage a convention last summer before the NFL allegedly put the kaibosh on the event. A resulting lawsuit against the NFL alleges NFL pressure on sponsors to bow out of last year's gathering forced its cancellation.

Lawyers for the company claim the NFL issued subpoenas to 13 sponsor for the rescheduled 2016 convention in Pasadena, as NBC Sports and other media outlets reported at the time. It's further alleged the NFL put the squeeze on players and league employees into ending their participation in the fantasy football convention on the grounds the convention was to be staged at a facility in Las Vegas owned by a casino, as NBC Sports reported.

"The NFL believes that it does not have to follow anyone's rules," lawyers contend in the lawsuit. "To harass Plaintiff’s sponsors, the NFL bypassed the legislature’s 10-day notice requirement and sent the subpoenas to the . . . sponsors without providing anyone a 10-day notice – a flagrant violation of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.”

The court seems to have agreed with the suggestions of heavy-handedness, given its issuance of the TRO late Wednesday.

Tom Brady and New England can keep its Deflategate scandal and its high drama. Here in Texas, we've got FantasyFootballConventionGate to keep us on the edge of our seats.