Could Tony Romo still be holding a torch for former flame Carrie Underwood? Despite courting Jessica Simpson for nearly a year, Romo still drops an occasional call to his “Jesus, Take The Wheel” singing ex.

“We were both small-town people doing very big things, and we relied on each other, dealing with fame,” Carrie says in the September issue of Allure Magazine. “I don’t know. The phone will ring and it’ll be him, and I’ll maybe not answer.”