NFL announcer scorching range speak continues to be wild this offseason.
As The Put up’s Andrew Marchand first reported, Troy Aikman is leaving Fox Sports activities for ESPN, and ESPN want to deliver Joe Buck with him if the contractual kinks may very well be ironed out.
Mike Leslie of WFAA in Dallas requested the legendary Cowboys quarterback if he’d prefer to proceed working with Buck — they’ve been working collectively at Fox since 2002 — and the reply couldn't have been extra affirmative.
“We now have an awesome friendship. We actually do,” Aikman mentioned. “We’ve been by way of lots in our career. However we’ve additionally been by way of lots in our private lives. We’ve type of paralleled lots in our private lives, and we’ve helped one another get by way of numerous that.”
Aikman mentioned, considerably ominously, that their friendship has been “taken without any consideration” by unnamed events.
“So, I do know that’s not the norm,” he mentioned. “I believe numerous companions get alongside, however he actually is one among my greatest buddies. I believe there’s in all probability extra that may very well be mentioned, and I believe perhaps it should in the suitable time, however there’s been some disappointment on how that was perhaps taken without any consideration by some.”
Aikman completed with extra reward for his longtime companion.
“He’s been a unbelievable companion, in my view the very best within the enterprise, and there’s nothing I’d like greater than to proceed to work with him,” he mentioned.
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