{"id":153477,"date":"2026-02-06T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:45:14","slug":"troy-aikman-aspires-to-be-a-dallas-cowboys-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153477\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman aspires to be a Dallas Cowboys homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Tom Brady claimed he won\u2019t be rooting for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, Troy Aikman claimed he would love to root for the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Brady will be in attendance for this weekend\u2019s Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. And despite leading the Patriots to nine Super Bowl appearances of his own, Brady triggered the fanbase and some of his <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/former-patriots-teammates-call-out-tom-brady-for-super-bowl-neutrality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ex-teammates<\/a> by insisting he <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/tom-brady-not-rooting-for-patriots-in-super-bowl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">won\u2019t be rooting<\/a> for his former team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/post.futurimedia.com\/ktck\/playlist\/38\/listen-12795.html?cb=1770305718.433042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">weekly appearance<\/a> with The Musers on The Ticket in Dallas Thursday morning, Aikman claimed Brady is just trying to play it neutral as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and NFL analyst for Fox, even though he won\u2019t be calling the game this year. But if the roles were switched and it was Aikman attending a Super Bowl featuring the Cowboys for the first time in more than three decades, you can bet he\u2019d be willing to admit his rooting interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl, there\u2019s no question I would be rooting for the Cowboys,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cThe hard thing I would have is if I was calling the game. Of course, Tom is not calling this game. But if I was calling the game next year and Dallas is in the Super Bowl and I\u2019m asked during the week, \u2018Hey, are you rooting for the Cowboys?\u2019 That\u2019s a hard one to answer because you\u2019re calling the game. But outside of that, yeah, it\u2019s kind of an easy question to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Dan Orlovsky believes the Dallas Cowboys are just now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/2019452725717524970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opening their Super Bowl window<\/a>, recent history indicates Aikman probably won\u2019t have to worry about his former team playing in the game next season when he\u2019s slated to call it for ESPN and ABC. And while Aikman attempts to be unbiased when calling a Cowboys game, he looks forward to the day that he can follow in Roger Staubach\u2019s footsteps by being a better ambassador for Jerry Jones\u2019 franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been a tremendous ambassador to the Dallas Cowboys,\u201d Aikman said of Staubach. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve told him, and I\u2019ve told others, \u2018I would love to be Roger Staubach, I would love to be the homer for the Dallas Cowboys.\u2019 But I\u2019m a national broadcaster and I can\u2019t always do that. One of these days, when I hang up the mic and I\u2019m done, then I\u2019ll go into Staubach mode, and I\u2019ll be a Cowboys homer as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s Brady. Who won six Super Bowls with New England, declared himself a \u201cPatriot for life\u201d in 2023 and has his own statue in front of the stadium. But even though he\u2019ll be attending Super Bowl LX as a fan this weekend, Brady has no interest in being a Patriots homer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Tom Brady claimed he won\u2019t be rooting for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, Troy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103,10365,61082,63463,10050,5152],"class_list":{"0":"post-153477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-super-bowl-lx","14":"tag-the-musers","15":"tag-tom-brady","16":"tag-troy-aikman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}