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17 Oct 2023


NextImg:Troy Aikman addresses Jay-Z lookalike meme on ‘Monday Night Football’

Troy Aikman is well aware of the memes linking him to an unlikely doppelgänger — Jay-Z.

The rapper was at Sofi Stadium to take in Cowboys vs. Chargers on “Monday Night Football” this week, and ESPN play-by-play broadcaster Joe Buck narrated that he was “reaching for a refreshment”.

Aikman chimed in, “Yeah, there’s a meme that’s going around, that he’s my doppelgänger, me and Jay-Z. How about that?”

Troy Aikman addressed the meme that he looks like Jay-Z on ‘Monday Night Football’ this week.
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Buck chuckled and said that he could see it, and segued to announcing that LeBron James was also in attendance at the game.

Earlier this month, Meadowlark Media podcaster Pablo Torre was filling in as a guest host on ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” and asked Aikman, for purposes of his podcast, if he was aware of the Jay-Z meme.

“Yes. I am aware of that,” Aikman answered. “A white Jay-Z. There was a meme, it still pops up on my feed from time to time. It was some game, yeah — I don’t know what… I think this was before everything kinda went AI. But, [now] you don’t know what’s real and what’s not, so I don’t know if that was actually an unedited picture of me, but, pretty scary.”

Jay-Z in London in 2021.

Jay-Z in London in 2021.
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This past June, without specifying a date, the 56-year-old Troy Aikman revealed that he has the end of his broadcasting career in sight.

“I always have been [mindful] of our time being limited. … So, I posed the question to myself a lot that, you know, if you’ve got ‘X’ number of years left, what exactly do you want to do with that time?” Aikman said, according to The Dallas Morning News.

“And I go a step further — does that include broadcasting, does that include living in Texas? … But yet, I am still broadcasting and I’m still living in Dallas, and I very much love the state of Texas and I love living in Dallas, but I don’t know how much longer I’ll do it. I’ve got a pretty good idea. And not to suggest that I’m retiring anytime in the near future, but I’ve got an idea as to when I believe that I’ll retire.”