I had heard the rumor since 1991. An off-duty Dallas police officer who traveled with the Cowboys and worked security at their hotels first told me that ‘the word on the street’ was that Troy Aikman was gay. Over the next four years, I heard the rumor from two more police officers who worked around the team (and I know they mentioned it to team officials). One officer told me Aikman ‘was supposed to be’ having a relationship with a male member of a country-western band.
Aikman is likely to decline such meeting — telling Sports Illustrated about Fox Sports, “To say I’m disappointed in the hiring of Skip Bayless would be an enormous understatement.”
Bayless — as arrogant as ever — claimed that he wrote Aikman a note, suggesting that he was dumbfounded, by Aikman’s issues with the book, and with the claim.