Leftists on social media are enraged at ESPN analyst Troy Aikman after he said it was time for the NFL’s competition committee to “take the dresses off” and let the players play football.
The play that sparked Aikman’s comment was a strip sack by Kansas City’s Chris Jones on Raiders QB Derek Carr that was called roughing the passer.
The NFL is such a joke and is just dreadful.
How is this roughing the passer? pic.twitter.com/KIPKSiArtr
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) October 11, 2022
Like Grady Jarrett’s textbook sack of Tom Brady on Sunday, Jones’ outstanding play was just another in a long line of perfectly legal sacks penalized by “over-officious jerks” doing the bidding of lawyers at the NFL offices who apparently want to turn the NFL into a flag football league.
That notion was not lost on Aikman, a Hall of Fame player who played the game when it was still real football and let it be known that it was time to “take the dresses off” and get back to real football.
— sportsvids99 (@sportsvids991) October 11, 2022
Leftists on
social media blasted Aikman for daring to speak the truth about the current state of the NFL while making an analogy to women:
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
Did Troy Aikman really just say what I think he said?
Did he really just say that it's time for the league to"take the dresses off"? The 60's called, they want their chauvinist back.
Seriously @ESPN… do better than that crap.#MNF
— Jason Page (@TheBackPage) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman on Monday Night Football: “I hope the competition committee looks at this at the next #NFL meeting, and we take the dresses off.”
“Dresses:” https://t.co/Gneu9Ckd8D
— Rachel Bachman (@Bachscore) October 11, 2022
troy aikman’s “take the dresses off”comment tonight, the implication being that some rules are ‘too girly’. mans a whole caveman. pic.twitter.com/TOTBxTot3m
— míchael (@MikeTaddow) October 11, 2022
don’t love aikman saying the players need to “take the dresses off,” just say the call sucks my man
— Trevor J. Mitchell (@TJM613) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman is right. Everyone knows he is right. And the way he said it is more than appropriate. But, unfortunately, in our insane world, being factually accurate is not a safeguard against getting canceled. Also, it is perhaps unfortunate for Aikman that he works for ESPN. Were he still an employee of Fox Sports, a slightly less woke network, he might have more organizational support.
The ultra-woke ESPN is less likely to lend that support.
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