The Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers meet on Monday Night Football to end Week 6. You can watch the game on ABC and ESPN at 8:15 p.m. ET.
The traditional broadcast with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Lisa Salters will be on ABC and ESPN. There is no The ManningCast, the ESPN2 alternate broadcast, this week.
After working together for twenty years at FOX, Buck and Aikman are calling Monday Night Football on ESPN in their second season. They called 18 NFC Championship Games and six Super Bowls together at FOX.
From the current NFL standings to team depth charts to coverage of every game in the 18-week NFL schedule, we have all the news from around the league to keep you up to speed!
Joe Buck Done With Network Baseball
Joe Buck told Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina that he was not going to call baseball games on ESPN in the future. He has not called a game since leaving FOX last year. Buck, who started his broadcasting career in minor league baseball, called 24 World Series and 22 MLB All-Star games while at FOX.
MORE: NFL Prime-Time Games 2023
Buck followed in his father Jack’s footsteps, calling St. Louis Cardinals games on radio and television from 1991 to 2007. He told Sports Illustrated, “So if the Cardinals need me or want me to come down and do a game someday with Chip Caray to have Buck and Caray together again, maybe I would do that just for fun, but I just don’t have any desire to call network baseball anymore.”
Troy Aikman Led America’s Team
Troy Aikman was the first player drafted by the Dallas Cowboys after Jerry Jones bought the team in 1989. The team took Aikman, who played quarterback at Oklahoma and UCLA, with the No. 1 overall pick.
The 1988 Cowboys earned the top pick after going 3-13 in Tom Landry’s final season. Aikman’s rookie season was also the first NFL season for head coach Jimmy Johnson, who tried to recruit Aikman multiple times when both were in college. The team went 1-15 in 1989, including losing all 11 games that Aikman started.
Dallas returned to the playoffs in Aikman’s third season in 1991, but the quarterback was returning from injury and did not start in the team’s two playoff games. Aikman did make his first Pro Bowl after playing 12 games that season.
The next season, Aikman and the Cowboys won the franchise’s third Super Bowl championship. He threw four touchdown passes in a 52-17 win against the Buffalo Bills and was named Super Bowl XXVII MVP.
Dallas went on to become the first team to win three Super Bowls in four seasons. Aikman was stellar in postseason play during the three championship runs, throwing 17 touchdowns and only four interceptions in nine games.
Aikman, along with wide receiver Michael Irvin and running back Emmitt Smith, formed “The Triplets.” All three made the Pro Football Hall of Fame after combining 19 Pro Bowl appearances in ten seasons.
