Troy Kenneth Aikman has made his name known at the highest level. The former quarterback played in the NFL for over a decade and played exclusively for the Dallas Cowboys from his first season to his final season.
When Troy took the early stage, he was seen as a future superstar. He won the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year award at UCLA, and soon the Dallas-based franchise pinned him for the first overall standings in the 1989 NFL Draft. In addition, Aikman received six Pro Bowl selections and played an important role in leading his side to three Super Bowl championships.
‘The hardest phone call I ever had was to Erin Andrews’: Troy Aikman
Also, after quitting the sport, Aikman has become one of the most famous names in the history of sports broadcasting. Recently, however, the network has ended its long-standing relationship with FOX as it continues to sign a major deal with Tom Brady.
In fact, John Ourand, who enumerated possible reasons why FOX pursued Brady and overlooked Troy Aikman, claimed on the “Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast that Troy annoyed FOX by vocalizing too much. “When Troy Aikman wanted to step out of his contract and started talking to Amazon and talking to ESPN and making it public – he would answer any question that came his way – it made the people at Fox uncomfortable,‘ he had stated.
Recently, Troy also talked about the end of his tenure with FOX. as reported by SPUNAfter leaving FOX to join ESPN, the toughest phone call Aikman had to make was to Erin Andrews. “The hardest call I had to make was to go to Erin Andrews and tell her I was leaving.”
He continued to claim that Erin was like a sister to him. Erin also reacted to Troy’s departure. During her podcast, Erin stated that despite being a pretty tough cookie, it was impossible for her to stop crying. “I I’m known as a hard cookie. I can handle a lot of things, I’ve dealt with a lot of things, but when I had to talk to two of those guys (Troy and Joe Buck) separately when they both officially broke up, Oh my God, I cried.‘ he stated.
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