Troy Aikman has fans wondering whether he could be thinking up a move as he’s spoken about his future this week
The former quarterback has been in broadcasting for 22 years now, so it wouldn’t be considered ill-timed should he opt to call it quits at any point. Speaking on 96.7 FM/1310 AM The Ticket on Monday, he hinted he could be making certain considerations.
“I probably give it more thought than I should,” the Hall of Famer said (H/T the Dallas Morning News). “I always have been [mindful] of our time being limited. . . . So I posed the question to myself a lot that, you know, if you’ve got ‘X’ number of years left, what exactly do you want to do with that time?
Aikman claimed he isn’t suggesting retirement could be on the horizon but he can’t say how much longer he’ll be working in broadcasting.
“And I go a step further — does that include broadcasting, does that include living in Texas? . . . But yet, I am still broadcasting and I’m still living in Dallas, and I very much love the state of Texas and I love living in Dallas, but I don’t know how much longer I’ll do it,” he continued. “I’ve got a pretty good idea. And not to suggest that that I’m retiring any time in the near future, but I’ve got an idea as to when I believe that I’ll retire.”
The 56-year-old also noted that any chance of him being a general manager in the NFL has passed, though he would not mind helping a franchise out in some capacity, not necessarily an official one.
“There’s still a part of me, I think, that down the road — the talk has always come up about whether or not I want to be a General Manager,” he remarked. “And I think that has passed. But there may come a time that I’d be interested in just helping out with a club, with an organization, and not necessarily in an official capacity. I think that would be enjoyable. . . .”
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The former signal-caller is headed into the second year of a five-year deal with ESPN that guarantees him $90 million. It’s safe to assume he would go on to live pretty comfortably whenever he decides to retire.
