Troy Aikman Archives

The Awfulies – Awful Announcing’s 2022 Sports Media Awards

The year 2022 was a memorable one in the sports media. We saw comings and goings like never...

Kirk Herbstreit’s foot rub just reset the standard for sports analysts

Save your Rex Ryan jokes.

Troy Aikman talks hitting ‘rock bottom as a broadcaster’ on ‘NFL Icons’

"Prior to that moment, I don't know that I ever really felt victories. I never felt even small victories in broadcasting, but since then I have."

Troy Aikman admits misogynistic ‘take the dresses off’ comment was ‘dumb’

"My comments were dumb. Just shouldn’t have made them, just dumb remarks on my part"

Troy Aikman makes misogynistic comment about controversial roughing the passer penalty

"My hope is the [NFL] Competition Committee looks at this in the next set of meetings, and you know, we take the dresses off."

ESPN drowned Troy Aikman’s Monday Night Football analysis with 30 seconds of Harry Styles

The blunder came just three weeks after Aikman praised ESPN’s professionalism while referring to his former employer, Fox as a "mom-and-pop type operation."

Jon Wertheim talks SI feature on Joe Buck and Troy Aikman: ‘This is just another indication that this stuff really matters.’

"On the one hand, we say 'It doesn't matter who's calling the game, everybody's just watching for the action.' But if that is the case, you're not spending that kind of money."

Troy Aikman offers advice to Kirk Herbstreit on calling two games per week

"I don't envy him."

Joe Buck offers some detail on what else he’ll be doing for ESPN

"...if somebody asks you to come on TV, come on TV. Don't be a putz."

Troy Aikman says lack of communication is the reason he’s no longer at Fox: It’s ‘disappointing’

"Nobody has to feel at fault for feeling a certain way or taking a stand. Just communicate that."

Joe Buck says he didn’t expect Troy Aikman’s move to ESPN, which then led to his own move: ‘Honest to God, I never...

"You know, I'm 53 years old, I don't really want to go through the getting-to-know-you process with somebody else."

Bears-Seahawks broadcast shows why ESPN splurged for Buck and Aikman

No one could have elevated a meaningless blowout preseason game, but Buck and Aikman would have made it more watchable.

Tony Romo is happy for Joe Buck and Troy Aikman: “Any time somebody makes money, it’s a good thing”

"When somebody makes more money, that's helping out everybody else."

Joe Buck says Fox floated pairing him with Tom Brady before he left for ESPN

"They floated that to me before I left and I didn’t think it was completely realistic, I’m still not one hundred percent sure."

Erin Andrews thought Fox would hire Peyton Manning, not Tom Brady, to replace Troy Aikman

"I had convinced myself we were getting Peyton Manning."

John Skipper laments Tom Brady’s $375 million contract with Fox: “He’s a very expensive trophy”

"For $375 million, you could have bought some live event rights, which would actually make a significant difference."

Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as their lead NFL analyst after he retires

Brady will continue to be a prominent figure on NFL Sundays for a very long time.