At a time when a sense is growing that Troy Aikman will be leaving ESPN\/ABC after the 2026 season, Aikman seems to be dealing with a vague situation in the same way a Hall of Fame quarterback would.<\/p>\n
By not shying away from it, and by not mincing words.<\/p>\n
Appearing Thursday morning on 96.7 The Ticket in Dallas, Aikman was specifically asked about Wednesday\u2019s account of tension between him and 25-year on-air partner Joe Buck<\/a>, which reportedly resulted in a recent argument between them.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s probably a time and a place for all that<\/a>,\u201d Aikman said, via Joseph Hoyt of the Dallas Morning News. \u201cI don\u2019t know if now is the time. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s hard to figure out kind of what happened. I\u2019ll broadcast through this season and I\u2019ll be a free agent at the end of the year and kind of see what happens. I\u2019m looking forward to whatever the rest of this season does hold and the Super Bowl and all that and where my next landing spot may be.\u201d<\/p>\n While Aikman opted not to address the situation with Buck \u2014 while also not denying the existence of tension \u2014 Aikman\u2019s words strongly suggest that he plans to leave Monday Night Football when his contract expires after Super Bowl LXI.<\/p>\n He said he\u2019ll \u201cbe a free agent.\u201d He said he\u2019ll look forward to \u201cwhere my next landing spot will be.\u201d<\/p>\n When Aikman addressed the situation last month, after news emerged that Buck had signed a new five-year deal, Aikman\u2019s approach had more of a wait-and-see vibe<\/a>. Now, the message seems to be more like, \u201cSee you later.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s stunning that all of this is coming to a head with so many weeks left in the 2026 season. Throw in the fact that ESPN is televising its first-ever Super Bowl, and the Buck-Aikman relationship becomes a focal point as the year continues to unfold.<\/p>\n It all culminates in a four-hour broadcast that will be watched by well over 100 million people, and that could end with Aikman singing off not by signing Turn Out The Lights, The Party\u2019s Over<\/a> but by quoting the chorus of Take This Job And Shove It<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a time when a sense is growing that Troy Aikman will be leaving ESPN\/ABC after the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-883332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}