"Troy has won, lost, bled, sweated, and he's earned his opinion," Buck said. "That's what makes for great, honest TV."

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were on the call for the first game of the NFL's Divisional weekend on Saturday afternoon. ESPN had the AFC matchup between the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans.

Buck relayed to the audience a story of he and Aikman calling an Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field. Throughout the entire first half, one particularly committed fan continually yelled “TROYYYYY!” at the booth, attempting to get Aikman’s attention.

Football fans noticed the same concerning-looking thing about Troy Aikman during the Texans-Chiefs playoff game.

These days, most people know Troy Aikman as ESPN’s lead NFL color commentator, one half of a stellar duo with play-by-play person Joe Buck. But once upon a time, Aikman was a Dallas Cowboys legend, winning three Super Bowls with the franchise in the 1990s as their starting quarterback.

Las Vegas parted ways with the first-year coach-GM tandem of Antonio Pierce and Tom Telesco earlier this month, and the “allure” of Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion, was said to have helped the Raiders become an enticing option for Johnson, 38.

Troy Aikman did not sound like his usual self while calling Monday night's NFC Wild Card playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams,

Football commentator Joe Buck caught strays from Bears chairman George McCaskey on an unrelated topic about Tom Brady.

ESPN announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman criticized the Vikings' for a lack of urgency throughout the fourth quarter and also touched on Darnold's contract situation, which Aikman said is "a different conversation today than it was two weeks ago."

Joe Buck is one of the most famous TV commentators and the lead play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football at ESPN along his co-host and legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback

On this absolutely jam-packed edition of the Kevin O'Connor Show, ESPN's Bobby Marks *and* college basketball guru John Fanta both stop by to talk hoops. After anemic demand for some early-round CFP games, Buckeyes and Irish fans are snapping up championship tickets.

If the fat lady had sung, Joe Buck certainly didn’t hear her. A frustrated Vikings team looked lethargic, dismayed and shocked as they slowly went to the line of scrimmage and were still running the ball Monday while trailing the Rams by 18 with 6:24 remaining.