Cancel culture’s latest victim: NFL announcer and former professional football player Troy Aikman.
“I hope that the competition committee looks at this during the set of meetings and we take the dresses off,” the announcer said after a call during the Kansas City Chiefs/Las Vegas Raiders game Monday night.
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Aikman, who is an announcer on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1989 draft, joining the Dallas Cowboys. He played with the team for 12 seasons, leading them to three Super Bowl victories in the 1990s. During Monday’s game, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes passed Aikman’s 165 all-time passing touchdowns.
Social media immediately jumped on the remark, calling out the announcer for being “misogynistic.”
“The competition committee ‘needs to take the dresses off’?? Aren’t we past using things associated with women as a pejorative? C’mon, Troy Aikman,” tweeted Paola Boivin, the first female journalist to be named to the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.
The competition committee “needs to take the dresses off”?? Aren’t we past using things associated with women as a pejorative? C’mon, Troy Aikman ?
— Paola Boivin (@PaolaBoivin) October 11, 2022
“Troy Aikman really needs to find a non-misogynistic way to critique the call besides ‘take the dresses off’. And I say this as someone who heard this misogyny normalized by coaches as a kid & even participated myself. Way past time to end such sports talk,” sportswriter Chuck Modi added.
Troy Aikman really needs to find a non-misogynistic way to critique the call besides “take the dresses off”.
And I say this as someone who heard this misogyny normalized by coaches as a kid & even participated myself. Way past time to end such sports talkpic.twitter.com/lHVhv6WdEv
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) October 11, 2022
“Troy Aikman said f*** the 2022 social climate and told competition committee to “take off the dresses” live on air, re: roughing the passer calls,” said fantasy football editor Chris Raybon.
Troy Aikman said fuck the 2022 social climate and told competition committee to “take off the dresses” live on air, re: roughing the passer calls.
— Chris Raybon (@ChrisRaybon) October 11, 2022
“Hey @espn are you cool with Aikman being a mysoginistic and homophobic pig on #MNF ? What a stupid comment, Troy,” one user tweeted.
Hey @espn are you cool with Aikman being a mysoginistic and homophobic pig on #MNF ? What a stupid comment, Troy. https://t.co/X6UkHzBduZ
— Chrisa “Keep Your Ban Off My Body” Hickey (@Chrisa_Hickey) October 11, 2022
Another person tweeted, “Troy Aikman just said ‘we need to take the dresses off’ on national tv about a call. Can we as a country cancel him so I never have to hear his voice again?”
Troy Aikman just said “we need to take the dresses off” on national tv about a call. Can we as a country cancel him so I never have to hear his voice again?
— Johnathan (@SoulessGngr) October 11, 2022
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