“You F–ked Me Over” — More Toxic Details Emerge Inside The Backstage Drama Between Joe Buck & Troy Aikman That’s Threatening ESPN’s MNF Booth

This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.

It’s 2026, and it appears that Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are on their last leg in their partnership. Once a budding duo and the standard for calling games, it has now turned into something fans never expected to see.

The longtime Monday Night Football broadcast partners got into a heated pregame argument at SoFi Stadium earlier this month. It was after Aikman discovered that Buck had secretly signed a major multi-year extension with ESPN without telling him.

Just that alone sent shockwaves through social media. However, that was just the start of things.

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck Almost Threw Punches Before MNF

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse. Troy Aikman was reportedly upset for weeks before a heated confrontation took place between him and Joe Buck.

Puck is reporting on the details that led to the blow-up between Aikman and Buck. Consequently, it almost led them to try to fight each other.

“There had been weeks of Troy becoming increasingly cold, difficult, short, making comments,” a source with direct knowledge of the dynamics between Buck and Aikman told Puck’s Dylan Byers.

Before the Rams-Bills overtime thriller, “Joe finally snapped,” Byers’s source continued. “He basically said, ‘Dude, are we really going to do this?’”

Troy Aikman reportedly fired back, “You f-cked me over.”

Another source told Byers that the two men “exchanged some very direct and honest feelings.”

The former QB was reportedly unaware that Buck and his agent tried to preempt the contract renegotiation process in May. They approached ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro and programming chief Burke Magnus to engage in early renewal discussions.

Aikman “saw it as the ultimate act of betrayal,” an unnamed source said. “They cut this deal in May and put it in a drawer. ESPN didn’t tell him, Joe didn’t tell him.”

ESPN offered Buck an annual salary of $15 million to $18 million for six years. At the same time, it was revealed that Buck might have a different partner in the booth on Monday Night Football next season.

Aikman, meanwhile, sought to initiate similar negotiations, proposing a raise from $18 million annually to $30 million. Unfortunately, ESPN told the Aikman team that they would table negotiations until after the NFL season.

Following his comments about being a free agent, it appears those negotiations will not happen now.