{"id":885206,"date":"2026-10-17T06:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885206\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:08:24","slug":"what-im-hearing-about-troy-aikmans-next-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885206\/","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Hearing About Troy Aikman\u2019s Next Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After 25 years in the booth together, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman might be headed towards a breakup. Joe Buck recently signed a new six-year extension with ESPN that is worth more than $100 million. The idea was that Aikman\u2019s contract would be worked out shortly after that, but Aikman says ESPN hasn\u2019t presented him with any offers, and he will now head to free agency after this year\u2019s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Front Office Sports even reported this week that Buck and Aikman got into a verbal altercation before this week\u2019s Monday Night Football broadcast. Things eventually calmed down, Buck and Aikman called the game together, and viewers would never have known they’d gotten into a spat before the game. But tension has been building for a while, and every booth might get shaken up as a result.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t get to write about this yesterday because I was traveling, but I\u2019ve talked to several people over the last few days who have direct knowledge of the situation (think: agents, media executives, etc.). So for today\u2019s newsletter, I\u2019m going to recap what I learned during those conversations, including what Aikman is actually mad about, why ESPN is okay with breaking up the Buck-Aikman partnership, where Aikman might be headed next, and who could take his spot on MNF.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I have been told\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 25 years in the booth together, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman might be headed towards a breakup.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-885206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885206","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=885206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}