{"id":890470,"date":"2026-10-22T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890470\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:52:16","slug":"troy-aikman-joe-buck-altercation-reportedly-almost-came-to-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890470\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman, Joe Buck altercation reportedly almost came to blows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although their Monday Night Football broadcasts haven\u2019t missed a beat, things appear to be quite contentious between longtime broadcast partners Troy Aikman and Joe Buck behind the scenes. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports reported that the longtime partners argued<\/a> ahead of ESPN\u2019s MNF broadcast of the Los Angeles Rams-Buffalo Bills game at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n

In September, Buck agreed to a six-year extension worth more than $100 million <\/a>to remain ESPN\u2019s voice of MNF.\u00a0Aikman, whose contract is set to expire after this season, has yet to sign any such extension.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought something would be done prior to the start of this season,\u201d Aikman said of the situation.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ve never gone into the last year of a contract ever since I signed with the Dallas Cowboys.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Glasspiegel\u2019s report, Aikman didn\u2019t deny\u00a0that something went down<\/a> between the two before the Rams-Bills game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s probably a time and a place for all that,\u201d said of the report. \u201cI don\u2019t know if now is the time. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s hard to figure out kind of what\u2019s 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. But 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 might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, details seem to be emerging on just how intense things between the pair almost got before the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt nearly got physical off air,\u201d a source told In Touch <\/a>exclusively. \u201cThey were very close from coming to blows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe signed his new deal and never said a word to Troy. Not one word,\u201d the source added. \u201cThey\u2019ve been partners for more than 20 years. In this business, when something like that is happening, the bosses and your partner sit you down and tell you. That\u2019s standard practice. Nobody did that for Troy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who\u2019ve worked closely with both of them say they\u2019ve never seen a betrayal like it,\u201d the source continued. \u201cIt\u2019s the biggest betrayal anyone in the industry can remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, it appears as if Aikman is content to let his contract play out and see what happens from there, which will only make the microscope on him, Joe Buck, and ESPN grow even more intense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although their Monday Night Football broadcasts haven\u2019t missed a beat, things appear to be quite contentious between longtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,176805,50687,398,396,397,30572,99,82871],"class_list":["post-890470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-joe-buck","tag-monday-night-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl-on-espn","tag-sports","tag-troy-aikman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890470","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=890470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}