{"id":869907,"date":"2026-04-19T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:54:40","slug":"chiefs-hc-andy-reid-tried-to-recruit-troy-aikman-during-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869907\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs HC Andy Reid tried to recruit Troy Aikman during a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent episode of New Heights, the Kelce brothers were joined by Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman. Travis asked Aikman a question about a moment when <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City Chiefs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> head coach Andy Reid tried to recruit him out of retirement to play for the Philadelphia Eagles during a game in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Aikman was a few years removed from retirement after 12 seasons in the league and well into his broadcasting career when he received a call from Reid seeking backup after Donovan McNabb went down with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s Andy.\u2019 I said, \u2018Andy Reid?\u2019 He says, \u2018You heard what happened (to Donovan McNabb), didn\u2019t you?\u2019 I said \u2018Yeah, we just did a game break on it.\u2019 He says \u2018Well, I wanna talk to you.\u2019 I said, \u2018Andy, I\u2019m in the middle of a broadcast,\u2019\u201d said Aikman, \u201cAnd he says, \u2018I know you are. I need you to call me after the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called him after the game, and he was selling me on why I should come out of retirement and go sign with the Eagles and play for him,\u201d said Aikman, \u201cObviously, I didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles that season would go on to the NFC Championship game after a streak of victories by third-string quarterback AJ Feeley, until McNabb recovered and played\u2014another unique Andy Reid story for many to reflect on in his stellar coaching career.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2026\/04\/19\/kansas-city-chiefs-hc-andy-reid-tried-to-recruit-troy-aikman-during-a-game\/89637098007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs HC Andy Reid tried to recruit Troy Aikman during a game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chiefs HC Andy Reid tried to recruit Troy Aikman during a game&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chiefs HC Andy Reid tried to recruit Troy Aikman during a game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the recent episode of New Heights, the Kelce brothers were joined by Pro Football Hall of Fame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[501,346,19900,7,118,110,2438,2437,21359,6,109,16154],"class_list":{"0":"post-869907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-donovan-mcnabb","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-new-heights","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","19":"tag-troy-aikman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116431478637727094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869907","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=869907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}