Troy Aikman horribly addressed the NFL’s continued awful roughing the passer calls during Monday’s Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders game.
“My hope is the competition committee looks at this at the next set of meetings,” he said on Monday Night Football earlier this week, “and we take the dresses off.”
It was awful, misogynistic, and fans on Twitter rightfully ripped Aikman for his phrasing.
On Thursday, he appeared on Sportsradio 96.7 FM and — per the Dallas Morning News — had this to say: “Yeah, I mean, my comments were dumb. Just shouldn’t have made them, just dumb remarks on my part.”
Troy Aikman wants the NFL to “take the dresses off” and fix roughing the passer penalty pic.twitter.com/YY4MicVKvU
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For what it’s worth, he added this:
“But the other part of … what came from that, what I said was that it implied that I’m not in favor of protecting the quarterbacks, which could not be further from the truth. I’m totally in favor of the protection that the quarterbacks are afforded, and all players for that matter. But there’s no question there has been over-enforcement of the protection for quarterbacks.”
