On Sunday, during the live broadcast of the AFC Championship game between Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals, CBS commentator Tony Romo was seemingly about to blurt out the N-word before catching himself and changing the subject.

Romo, 42, was praising Chiefs running back Isaiah Pacheco for avoiding tackles against the best tackling team in the NFL.

He then started talking about the three defenders who Pacheco avoided and changed the subject when the racial slur was about to slip out of his tongue.

"The extra yards. The tough yards. The finish on the play," Romo said. "Right there you got three ni...Talked about this. The best tackling team. They don't miss tackles. And that could be the difference."

NFL Twitter quickly asked for what Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe had to say about this on his "Undisputed" show with Skip Bayless.

Shannon Sharpe gives Tony Romo a pass

Sharpe, 54, apparently was not too concerned of what Romo was about to say and instead brushed it off by saying that sometimes people forget they're on television.

"It's television," Sharpe tweeted. "You get hyped and forget sometimes where you are."

The lack of outrage from Sharpe left some wondering if he was okay with Romo using the N-word in his daily life, since that'd be the only explanation to why he would say it on air.

"What do you want me to do about how someone talks when people aren't around? What's my role," Sharpe responded.