Eagles Pursued QB Troy Aikman In 2002

That would have been a terrible idea for Aikman. He retired because he had to many concussions. Its kinda like when Denver tried to talk Steve Young out if retirement when Elway retired

 

Good for Troy. He didn't want to jeopardize his legacy. I respect that.

 

i truely hate you for posting this. i'm serious, this isn't cyber hate, it's the real deal.

 

This story came about because he was asked if he every thought about pulling a Farve. He said he had an offer but declined but would not say what team.

Aikman would have been hated for that year and a few after he reretired, but by the time he would have been placed in the HOF most fans would have forgiven him.

 

It is a buisness for these guys, not trying to rub it in anyones face but the fact that he had a stint in Dallas at the end of his career shouldnt tarnish Randell's name to Eagle fans

 

Nah... at that point in Randall's career we were happy to see him get paid from a franchise dumb enough to pay him and the fact that he would get to steal an enemies money and play mediocre old man ball in Dallas for what was only ever going to be a year was a good thing.... you have to remember that season opened with the eagles destroying the cowboys and Aikman going out as well,so it was clear the cowboys were the dregs of the division. What's not clear is when you will recover and actually win a playoff game again.

 

Probobly a year or two before the Eagles win a Super Bowl and stop being thought as the red headed step child of the East

 

Only haters think of the Eagles as anything BUT the class of the division. We have ruled it for the better part of a decade.

 

With the other teams hitting rock bottom during that time it is like saying you are the King Dung Beetle. Now matter how highly you think of yourselves you still live in DUNG. The part that makes that statement even more funny is they are not even the team from the East to win a SB.

 

Just because the cowboys have been crap for a decade doesn't mean the whole NFC East has.

 

Then what are the cowboys known as since they have been losers since 1996.

 

They give rings for winning a division now? :laughy32:

 

I think you guys missed the point. This is nothing more than a cheap played out cliqued slam that was a response to phigles cheap, played out cliqued slam

 

The Steelers reached for Dan Marino when they were stuck with Kordell Stewart, and nobody makes a big deal about it.

IIRC even the Dolphins talked to Aikman after he retired too.

 

...lol...