I would have lost my s*** back in the day if this would have went down.

It's very rare nowadays to have a player play his entire career with one team. Hell my favorite Dallas Cowboys player of all time, Emmit Smith, played a few seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. My favorite player in Stars history is Mike Modano and even he played his last season with the Detroit Red Wings. I would say you don't have players anymore like a Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Irvin or a Troy Aikman.

It was almost not that simple. Turns out Troy almost considered returning in 2003 with the freaking Philadelphia Eagles. As a Cowboys fan that makes me sick to think about. I am from Baltimore so the team I hate the most is the Ravens, but the Eagles come in at a very close second. As we know Troy Aikman does commentary on Sundays for Fox, apparently that is when he was asked about a legit NFL return.

Donovan McNabb went down with an injury. Apparently Andy Reid called Troy Aikman during a halftime to talk to him about coming back. "[Reid] said, 'Hey, did you hear what happened.' I said, 'Yeah, we did a game break.' He said, 'Well I want to talk to you about coming to Philadelphia,'" Aikman said, per The Dallas Morning News. "I said, 'Andy, we're in the middle of a broadcast. It's halftime right now.' He said, 'I know, I'm watching the game.' So I said, 'OK, I call you after the game.'"

Aikman was really considering the offer but two things turned him away. A conversation with Norv Turner and the beautiful sunny weather in California.

"I got back to Santa Barbara and this was around November or whenever it was and I woke up and I'm thinking, 'I can either enjoy the next couple of days in Santa Barbara, Calif., it's about 65, 70 degrees, or I'm going to be on a plane flying to Philadelphia and probably going to be playing on Monday night against the 49ers," Aikman said. "I called Andy and I said, 'Hey, I'm honored that you've called me, but I'm going to stay put.'"

I have never been more thankful in my entire life for the beautiful weather in California. Thinking about Troy Aikman in an Eagles jersey just makes me sick. That would be like seeing Demarcus Ware in anything but a Cowboys jersey....oh, sad thoughts now.

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