Ryan Glasspiegel

Merry freaking Christmas.

Ryan in Brooklyn.

What's going on, Ryan? Gio, you gotta put the hand up and take an L, man.

Everyone knows you need the real ID.

Flying commercial, private- Hey, hey, hey, listen ... private jets, uh- Wait, wait.

It's not been four years.

Like four or five years with the real ID.

Ryan, it's not been four years.

And Aikman's gone on the radio the last couple of days saying that he's got no indication from ESPN that they wanna keep him.

Um, there was a story that, uh, came out in Front Office Sports that, um, R-Ryan Glasspiegel, uh, wrote that Troy and, and Joe Buck got into some kind of an argument, um, prior to the Rams-Bills game in LA the other night.

Um, clearly, you know, there's been no video of it.

There's been no stories about what the content of the conversation was, but most importantly is that nobody's denied it, so it likely happened.

There's also a David Shoemaker illustration on top of that column, which is typically excellent.

David, we got some big stories coming to us from Ryan Glasspiegel in front office sports.

This broke on Wednesday.

Here's the situation.

And if you listen to Andrew Marchand over in The Athletic, they aren't even going to deal with it, if they ever deal with it, until after the season.

Then this happened on Monday.

And I'll quote from Ryan Glasspiegel here.

There has been unspoken tension between the partners... that one has a new contract while the other, Aikman, has not received a formal offer.

You know, just to-- Ugh, man.

[sighs] You know, we had Ryan Glasspiegel on the show yesterday from Front Office Sports, and we were talking about, you know, the extreme likelihood at this point that Troy Aikman leaves Monday Night Football.

He thinks Greg Olsen will be the next, uh, analyst in the booth with Joe Buck on ESPN.

I think that would be awesome.

And again, this is Troy Aikman, uh, Thursday morning on The Ticket in Dallas.

"There's proba..." They asked him about the tension, and there was an argument between Joe and Troy that was reported by Ryan Glasspiegel, and this is Troy: "There's probably a time and a place for all that.

I don't know if now is the time.

I don't know if it's hard to figure out kind of what happened.

We, we're truly in the weeds here.

Yeah.

Well, listen, I, I have to say, s- you know, so when Ryan Glasspiegel has, had his report that there was tension between Joe and Troy, and then an argument before Monday Night Football, which amazingly no one would've ever known watching that game.

I mean, we could get into that in a little bit.

And a- you know, all of a sudden we get, um, a, a viral video of Joe Buck talking to his wife, Michelle, who, you know, does a great job for ESPN as well, and he seems kind of distressed.

And we see Troy Aikman walking to the end zone and And, uh, you know, you have Ryan Glasspiegel doing some great reporting that Aikman is, uh, maybe reportedly frustrated with Joe Buck not going to bat for him, taking the deal on his own, and not trying to keep their booth together.

These guys were together for years and years at Fox.

They've been doing Monday Night Football now for over, what is it, five years here? And, uh, they've...

Maybe

...

Ryan Glasspiegel reported this, uh, yesterday, saying that Buck, quote, "Broke the ice," end quote, on the unspoken tension, and the two had an argument in the broad- in the broadcast booth this week.

Um, uh, ob- um, obviously off air or during a commercial break maybe, or maybe at halftime.

Mm-hmm.

Troy Aikman does not have a contract extension, and before the game, on the last Monday night game, Ryan Glasspiegel from Front Office Sports reported that Joe Buck finally brought this up to Aikman, as there was some tension, and they argued before the game.

Now, we didn't notice anything when you were listening to it, but he said that there was a fight, and he believed, that Ryan believed that there's a significant possibility that Troy Aikman will not be with ABC ESPN beyond this year.

So Troy Aikman was on what, Dallas radio station today?