Troy Aikman Can Read Blitzes Better Than Audiences

A newspaper-reading FrontBurnervian passes along this gossip-y item from the Washington Post. Aikman was in D.C. to call the Redskins-Giants game (way to choke, Washington) and picked up a speaking gig along the way. A drug company paid Aikman to tell a group of doctors about his past troubles with migraines.

[O]ne doc in the audience raised his hand with a personal question: “Did you ever have to say, ‘Honey, not tonight, I have a headache’?”

Ha-ha! But Aikman didn’t get it and forged ahead with a sober answer about how his migraines affected his football game . . . and then someone explained the joke. Aikman’s snappy comeback: “Honey, I have Imitrex tonight!” (Yes, he’s the paid spokesman for the migraine drug.)

Later, Aikman told a curious couple why he really did like Wing Stop, and not just because he endorses the Dallas-based chain. Cue Fake Aikman: “Where’s my money?”