Troy Aikman says ESPN hiring him and Joe Buck was partly to help ‘mend’ network’s relationship with NFL
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What happened
The turnaround of ESPN’s relationship with the NFL over the past ten years has been something to behold. In 2016, the partnership could best be described as icy. ESPN was still in its hard-hitting investigative journalism era, leaning heavily into stories that directly threatened the NFL’s bottom line like concussions and players protesting racial injustice.…
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