{"id":1683436,"date":"2022-10-11T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683436"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:20:03","slug":"cancel-mob-seeks-to-sack-nfl-announcer-aikman-over-misogynistic-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cancel-mob-seeks-to-sack-nfl-announcer-aikman-over-misogynistic-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Mob Seeks To Sack NFL Announcer Aikman Over \u2018Misogynistic\u2019 Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcancel-mob-seeks-to-sack-nfl-announcer-aikman-over-misogynistic-remark%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cancel-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancel mob<\/a> is out for Hall of Fame quarterback-turned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fans-roar-as-nfl-rookie-makes-debut-weeks-after-being-shot-in-d-c-carjacking-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> announcer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hot-mic-nfl-announcers-joe-buck-troy-aikman-mock-military-flyover-that-stuff-aint-happening-with-kamala-biden-ticket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troy Aikman<\/a>, after his allegedly sexist comment on a penalty called during Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>Aikman, who helped the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl champions during his legendary career, took offense at a roughing the passer call when Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Chris Jones tackled Las Vegas Raiders\u2019 quarterback Derek Carr. It was the latest in a string of questionable calls by refs out to protect signal callers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the competition committee looks at this during the set of meetings and we take the dresses off,\u201d\u00a0said Aikman, 55, who was sacked 259 times in his career, and was known for his toughness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Troy Aikman wants the NFL to \u201ctake the dresses off\u201d and fix roughing the passer penalty <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YY4MicVKvU\">pic.twitter.com\/YY4MicVKvU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gifdsports (@gifdsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gifdsports\/status\/1579648017006985217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Troy Aikman wants the NFL to \u201ctake the dresses off\u201d and fix roughing the passer penalty  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YY4MicVKvU\">pic.twitter.com\/YY4MicVKvU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gifdsports (@gifdsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gifdsports\/status\/1579648017006985217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The penalty was critical, because Carr fumbled on the play. But Jones, who recovered the ball, fell on top of Carr and the refs blew the whistle. Although Kansas City still came from behind to win a thrilling 30-29 game, the play could easily have cost the Chiefs the victory.<\/p>\n<p>A day before, the Atlanta Falcons\u2019 Grady Jarrett was hit with the same penalty after what seemed like a perfectly legal hit on 45-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.<\/p>\n<p>After Aikman\u2019s comment, Twitter was deluged with critics calling him a misogynist and some demanding that ESPN punish him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTroy Aikman really needs to find a non-misogynistic way to critique the call besides \u2018take the dresses off,\u2019\u201d tweeted blue-check, self-described \u201cJustice Journalist\u201d Chuck Modi. \u201cAnd I say this as someone who heard this misogyny normalized by coaches as a kid &amp; even participated myself. Way past time to end such sports talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Troy Aikman really just say what I think he said?\u201d tweeted Jason Page. \u201cDid he really just say that it\u2019s time for the league to \u2018take the dresses off\u2019? The 60\u2019s called, they want their chauvinist back.\u00a0 Seriously ESPN \u2026 do better than that crap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t love aikman saying the players need to \u2018take the dresses off,\u2019\u201d just say the call sucks my man,\u201d tweeted Argus Leader journalist Trevor Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>But others defended Aikman and told his critics to lighten up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t believe the number of people getting upset about Troy Aikman saying \u2018take the dresses off,\u2019\u201d tweeted Scott Murphy. \u201cGood Lord you tiny little people with tiny little brains. So easily bruised, so easily offended. You are truly what is wrong with the planet today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cancel mob is out for Hall of Fame quarterback-turned NFL announcer Troy Aikman, after his allegedly sexist comment on a penalty called during Monday Night Football. Aikman, who helped the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl champions during his legendary career, took offense at a roughing the passer call when Kansas City Chiefs defensive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}