{"id":847899,"date":"2026-04-01T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847899\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:00:23","slug":"pat-mcafee-reveals-struggles-of-getting-troy-aikman-on-his-espn-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847899\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee reveals struggles of getting Troy Aikman on his ESPN show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat McAfee said he isn\u2019t sure where he stands with his ESPN colleague, Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ltVwgyu0-TU&amp;t=11s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Pat McAfee Show,\u201d<\/a> which taped live from the annual NFL meetings in Phoenix, McAfee explained his failed attempts to get the \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d analyst as a guest on his ESPN daily program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how we are with Troy, I\u2019ll be honest,\u201d McAfee said when asked by ESPN NFL insider Peter Schrager if he had connected with Aikman at the league meetings.   <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.38191633;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38958802\" width=\"815\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/media-personality-pat-mcafee-attendance-124727516.jpg\" alt=\"Pat McAfee in attendance during the 2026 NFL Annual League Meeting at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix on March 30, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-38958802\"  \/>Pat McAfee in attendance during the 2026 NFL Annual League Meeting at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix on March 30, 2026.  Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like him. I was with Joe Buck for a long time\u2026 Troy never comes on our show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAfee explained he won\u2019t take things personally, but mentioned how Aikman appeared on \u201cThe Rich Eisen Show\u201d when it moved to ESPN in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Rich Eisen\u2019s first day on ESPN at noon, he\u2019s on the show,\u201d McAfee said. \u201cTroy always tells us, \u2018Can\u2019t do it noon. Sorry, it\u2019s impossible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst day Rich [Eisen] is on, Troy\u2019s like, \u2018Get me on that phone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38958845\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aikman.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Aikman, before the NFL game at Allegiant Stadium on November 17, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.   \" class=\"wp-image-38958845\"  \/>Troy Aikman, before the NFL game at Allegiant Stadium on November 17, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.    Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>McAfee said he \u201cwon\u2019t take it as personal heat,\u201d and added, \u201cBut I do not know, and we don\u2019t know Troy like that,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ESPN signed Aikman, along with play-by-play announcer Buck, to multi-year deals in March 2022 after the pair worked together as Fox\u2019s lead NFL broadcast team for 20 seasons, from 2002 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime duo is slated to call Super Bowl 2027 next February when the big game airs on ESPN for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee said he isn\u2019t sure where he stands with his ESPN colleague, Pro Football Hall of Famer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,7,6,955,9,10,203,16154],"class_list":{"0":"post-847899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pat-mcafee","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-entertainment","14":"tag-sports-media","15":"tag-troy-aikman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116331470164095422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}