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Jessica Simpson’s beau, Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo, has broken a pinkie finger.

Citing an anonymous team source, ESPN reported that Romo suffered the injury during Sunday’s 30-24 overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

The NFL Network said Romo is currently being examined by team doctors. A Cowboys rep has yet to comment.

Meanwhile, Simpson is shooting down more rumors that they two are engaged.

“Tony and I have not gone to Neiman Marcus — somebody said we bought a ring there,” she tells Entertainment Tonight. “I couldn’t drag Tony in to Neiman Marcus if I tried.”

Though they are not engaged, she said, “We are doing great. I’m wearing my No. 9 jersey proud.”

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Jessica Simpson has revealed her song “You’re My Sunday” was written about her boyfriend Tony Romo.

“He is a place of rest in my life and that’s what the song is about… It’s his favorite song on the record,” Simpson, 28, told Extra’s Tanika Ray on Tuesday.

Despite criticism she got for jinxing Romo’s career (“that was absolutely ridiculous,” Simpson has said), she plans on cheering him on again this season.

“I won’t be wearing the jersey to the game, but I have been there and definitely going to support the Cowboys all the way,” Simpson told Extra.

As for why she decided to make the transition from pop to country, Simpson explained, “Country was just something that’s in my bones. It’s in my blood. It’s in my voice. It’s in my heart and I just wanted to pack my stuff up and go to Nashville and write with some of my favorite songwriters.”

She continued, “I just think it’s important for people to know that I’m human…I’m a good person with a good heart and great intentions…I’m a good sister. I’m a good daughter. I’m a good girlfriend.”

Jessica Simpson tripped up a rocky performance on live television Tuesday, the day of her album release.

“Hold on, I know this is live TV but I can’t hear anything,” she said as she starting singing her quadruple platinum hit “With You” on Good Morning America.

The music stopped, the crowd in Times Square went silent and then she counted down for her musicians to start again.

When asked about her public image, Simpson told Extra, “It’s really disheartening in a way how the media can control somebody’s perspective on someone else’s life…It’s really sad how people want to believe the worst…I’m really not as important people make me out to be.”

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Happier personally and professionally than she’s been in a long time, Jessica Simpson tells PEOPLE that boyfriend Tony Romo is her “perfect guy.”

“I just told him today, ‘You’re the love of my life,’ ” she confesses in the latest cover story. “I don’t really ever say that to anybody.”

Simpson, 28 (as is Dallas Cowboys quarterback Romo), also co-wrote a song for her man, “You’re My Sunday,” which is featured on her new country album, Do You Know (out Sept. 9). And, in a true modern-day sign of devotion, changed her cell phone number and e-mail address to cut off any potential communication from her exes.

“I don’t want anybody that’s been in my life [before] in my life anymore,” she says. “I don’t even want them to have any way of contacting me.”

Romo hasn’t done the same, but Simpson brushes it off. “I’m not a jealous girlfriend,” she says – even though in a recent interview his ex, Carrie Underwood, claims she still hears from him.

As for her own onetime relationship with John Mayer – which began in 2006 and fizzled out last summer – Simpson survived its rockiness by doing some self-appraisal afterwards.

“I had to regain self-esteem and self-value,” she says.

When it comes to relationships, Simpson says she gives over her heart fully and expects the same in return: “I just love, so I don’t understand when people can’t do exactly what I do.”

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Country music fans are probably the toughest music critics around.

Skepticism was elevated hours before Jessica Simpson’s debut country performance, opening for Sara Evans, Saturday night at Country Thunder. With only one country single released, fans doubted if the pop diva could stack up against other country music acts.

“Just because she’s dating Tony Romo it doesn’t make her country,” said Mike Rodriguez, 31, from Lake Geneva. “She doesn’t fit in with country, and I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”

Zach Schlodt, 19, of Palatine, Ill., agreed. Simpson’s heart isn’t in country music, and she is just banking on the genre’s current popularity, he said.

“She’s an embarrassment to country music,” he added.

The Texas native’s first pop single “I Wanna Love You,” debuted in 1999. Over the past several years, the songstress has attained superstardom.

Her country single was released this summer; however, her album is not due until Sept. 9.

The crowd welcomed Simpson with a mixture of boos and cheers Saturday night. She strutted onto the stage in Daisy Duke shorts, a white button-down shirt and cowboy boots as she sang a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots are Made for Walking.”

Her set included several cover songs, such as Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” and Shania Twain’s “Who’s Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”

She also belted out songs featured on her upcoming album called “Do You Know,” including the single “Come On Over.”

To the disappointment of many audience members, she also sang one of her pop hits “With You.”

So the question remains: Did Simpson prove herself?

It didn’t sit well with audience members that Simpson played after a more established country singer, Kellie Pickler.

Many audience members found her attempt to crossover into country irritating and that her vocals lacked a southern sound.

“I just don’t hear the country in her; I don’t hear the twang. She’s not good enough to be here,” said Adam Matos, 21, from Arlington Heights, Ill.

One man summed her performance up in a single word.

“It’s crap,” said Ryan Sia, 28, from East Troy. “She doesn’t belong here.”

But there were a few die-hard Simpson supporters in the crowd.

“I actually like her country songs better. She has a great voice, plus, she’s adorable,” said Mary Grace, 24, from Mundelein, Ill.

Simpson seemed aware of the tension.

“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas; I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy,” Simpson said.

And it doesn’t sound like Simpson is treating country music like a momentary diversion; before exiting the stage she announced she has no plans to produce a pop album again.

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