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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | West Covina, California, U.S. | November 21, 1966||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Henryetta (Henryetta, Oklahoma) | ||||||||||||
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NFL draft: | 1989 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1 | ||||||||||||
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Troy Kenneth Aikman (born November 21, 1966)[1][2] is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. After transferring from the Oklahoma Sooners, he played college football for the UCLA Bruins and won the Davey O'Brien Award as a senior. Aikman was selected first overall in the 1989 NFL draft by the Cowboys, with whom he received six Pro Bowl selections and won three Super Bowls. He was also named MVP of Super Bowl XXVII, the franchise's first title in over a decade. Aikman was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006[1] and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
After retiring in 2000, Aikman served as the color commentator of NFL on Fox from 2001 to 2021 and has served as the color commentator of Monday Night Football since 2022. He and his partner play-by-play announcer Joe Buck are the longest tenured announcer pairing in NFL history.[3] Aikman was also a co-owner of the now defunct NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team Hall of Fame Racing from 2005 to 2009, along with fellow former Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, and is a part-owner of the San Diego Padres in Major League Baseball (MLB).[4][5]