{"id":7182,"date":"2024-09-14T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2024-09-14T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T18:25:00","slug":"video-dallas-cowboys-hall-of-fame-qb-troy-aikman-opens-up-about-difficult-personal-moment-in-his-life-where-he-hit-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7182","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Dallas Cowboys Hall Of Fame QB Troy Aikman Opens Up About Difficult Personal Moment In His Life Where He Hit \u201cRock Bottom\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN NFL analyst and\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0legend\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/troy-aikman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troy Aikman<\/a>\u00a0recently opened up on a personal life hardship that led to him hitting \u201crock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Troy Aikman and longtime TV partner\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/joe-buck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Buck<\/a>\u00a0have kicked off their third season with ESPN together, calling the New York Jets-San Francisco 49ers \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d game at Levi\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to most other NFL greats and popular sports media personalities, Aikman isn\u2019t usually one to discuss his personal life. But during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5734926\/2024\/09\/06\/troy-aikman-cowboys-espn-mnf\/?campaign_id=190&amp;emc=edit_ufn_20240913&amp;instance_id=134181&amp;nl=from-the-times%C2%AEi_id=143341743&amp;segment_id=177689&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=077b4fee8106fda74fb160bb2b6bbfdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with Zak Keefer of The Athletic, the three-time Super Bowl champion admitted that he hit \u201crock bottom\u201d during his second marriage<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cA failure. That was my rock bottom. For me, contentment was always a four-letter word. I never wanted to be content. I didn\u2019t wanna be around anyone who was content. That\u2019s just not a place I could land.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Troy Aikman was first married to Rhonda Worthey, a former team publicist, from 2000 to 2011. They had two daughters together, and Worthey has another daughter from a previous marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old Aikman married his second wife, Catherine \u201cCapa\u201d Mooty, in Sept. 2017. Last year, reports stated that the Hall of Famer and Mooty had divorced after six years of marriage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Troy Aikman keeping it \ud83d\udcaf on Brock Purdy<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zKC7jgG8Ei\">pic.twitter.com\/zKC7jgG8Ei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coach Yac \ud83d\udde3 (@Coach_Yac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coach_Yac\/status\/1831695110347596173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aikman, who was drafted first overall by the Cowboys in 1989, turned the Cowboys back into an NFL juggernaut in the 90s. Along with fellow Hall of Famers in head coach Jimmy Johnson, wide receiver Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith, Aikman helped Dallas to three Super Bowl championships over a four-year span (1992, 1993 and 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, multiple concussions and a serious back injury forced Aikman to retire after the 2000 season, when he was only 34 years old. However, the Cowboys icon found tremendous success and created another special legacy as a top NFL analyst that began with FOX in 2001.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-troy-aikman-amp-joe-buck-will-be-in-philly-on-monday\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Troy Aikman &amp; Joe Buck Will Be In Philly On Monday<\/h2>\n<p>Aikman and Buck will be back in the broadcast booth on Monday night, when they call the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 home opener against\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/kirk-cousins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk Cousins<\/a>\u00a0and the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ESPN NFL analyst and\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0legend\u00a0Troy Aikman\u00a0recently opened up on a personal life hardship that led to him hitting \u201crock bottom.\u201d Troy Aikman and longtime TV partner\u00a0Joe Buck\u00a0have kicked off &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}