Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams has an image problem. He’s not nearly as important as he thinks he should be.

Last summer, after Tony Romo spent the 2009 season distributed passes among Miles Austin, Jason Witten and Dez Bryant, Williams held fast to his opinion that he was the team’s No. 1 receiver.

“I’ve always been the No. 1 guy wherever I go and I’m still going to continue to be that,” Williams said in a radio interview.

How did his 2010 season go? Started out well: 21 catches for 306 yards and five touchdowns. The Cowboys however, went 1-4.

Over the final 11 games, Williams had zero touchdowns in his 15 receptions, but the Cowboys won five games, including one in which Williams did not play. Williams, however, didn’t see the correlation.

“I just think if Michael Jordan is hot you keep feeding him the ball,” he said, comparing himself to one of the greatest athletes of our time.

So it’s no surprise that Williams had great expectations in his love life, as well.

On the heels of Romo’s wedding to former 2008 Miss Missouri USA — and former MU Diamond Darling — Candice Crawford comes news that Williams proposed to 2009 Miss Texas USA Brooke Daniels.

After the couple dated for about a year, Williams — who made it known he does not tip servers in restaurants and claimed he prefers taking dates to McDonald’s or Red Lobster — mailed a video proposal and a $76,000 engagement ring in February.

Not surprisingly, Daniels declined. And kept the ring until Williams sued to get it back.

That’s right, Cowboys fans, Williams dropped the ball again.

— Matt Nestor

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By Nathan Koppel

A Texas case raises a legal issue that we hope no reader ever has to encounter: you offer an engagement ring, a pricey one at that, to your significant other, only to have your marriage proposal rejected. Worse, the ring is not returned!

What else to do but file suit? Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams has done just that.

Williams proposed by mail to Brooke Daniels, the lovely, 2009 Miss Texas USA winner pictured left. Inside the mailed proposal, Williams included a $76,000 engagement ring.

Daniels rejected the proposal and failed to return the ring, according to a court filing accompanying Williams’ suit, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Daniels reportedly told Williams she lost the ring, but according to an investigation from Williams’ insurance company, the ring is in the possession of Daniels’ father Michael, according to the Morning News.

In an interview with the Odessa American, Michael Daniels said Roy Williams told his daughter to keep the engagement ring after she declined his hand in marriage, the newspaper reports.

Williams allegedly “said (to Brooke), ‘I’m not like a lot of people, I don’t want the ring back. You’ll eventually come back to me,’” Michael Daniels told the Odessa American.

But a truce might be soon at hand.

Michael Daniels says he’ll return the ring to avoid a legal hassle, according to this AP report.

“I want to wash my hands of it,” Michael Daniels told the Odessa American. “It’s just a hassle. I’ll take care of my daughter. I don’t need him.”