Between Sunday and last nights game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs, we saw some absolutely atrocious roughing the passer penalties, and may be the worst two day stretch of the calls in NFL history.
I’ll admit, I’m all for player safety in football, considering the damaging toll it takes on the body overtime, but the rules have gotten so ticky tack that players can’t even tackle the quarterback anymore without getting penalized.
It’s genuinely hard to watch, and it doesn’t feel like football anymore.
This call on Sunday in favor of Tom Brady was pretty suspect:
This may be the WORST roughing the passer penalty I’ve ever seen. Embarrassingly bad call. The Falcons got screwed.
(🎥: @TrainIsland)pic.twitter.com/KdvC0mi2KJ
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) October 9, 2022
After a couple of awful penalties on Sunday, the NFL refs struck again last night, calling a roughing the passer penalty on Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones.
It was seriously one of the most basic tackles you’ll ever see in football, and the refs threw a flag on this one:
Do you agree with this roughing the passer call? 🤔
(via @TSN_Sports)pic.twitter.com/ot2hcjQG8C
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 11, 2022
I mean good Lord, the NFL just needs to let defensive backs play on the defensive line, and defensive linemen play in the backfield at this point, because I don’t know what else Jones could do there besides grab him by the leg, and they’d probably throw a flag on that, too.
Fans, players, and even announcers are getting fed up with the direction the league is going, and one announcer in particular?
Hall of Fame and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman.
After the penalty was thrown, Aikman, who basically had his career cut short due to taking too many hits, simply couldn’t keep the disgust inside anymore, as he told the players:
“My hope is that the competition committee looks at this in the next set of meetings and we take the dresses off.”
— sportsvids99 (@sportsvids991) October 11, 2022
It’s a funny, honest comment, and you’d think everybody would agree, or at least not think twice about it, right?
Wrong.
Aikman’s comments were flooded with backlash on social media, with the PC police going as far as to call him “misogynist.”
Just see for yourself:
don’t love aikman saying the players need to “take the dresses off,” just say the call sucks my man
— Trevor J. Mitchell (@TJM613) October 11, 2022
You can make your point without talking about dresses Aikman
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman can't be saying shit like "it's time to take the dresses off"
— Joe Summers (@IAmJoeSummers) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman just said “we need to take the dresses off” on national tv about a call. Can we as a country cancel him so I never have to hear his voice again?
— Johnathan (@SoulessGngr) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman being a misogynist on @espn. So he's a garbage QB, a garbage announcer, and a bad person. Good job.
— The Big, Dumb QB Haver (@andrewkilger) October 11, 2022
How much is ESPN paying Troy Aikman to spew misogynist jokes on Monday Night Football?
— BENNY (@sportscasted) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman can GET BENT for his “take the dresses off” comment during #MondayNightFootball. Are you freaking kidding me? @NFL I’ll be anxiously awaiting your BS apology statement. That was some crap. Gross.
— Rachel Blackstar (@raswedi) October 11, 2022
Hey @espn are you cool with Aikman being a mysoginistic and homophobic pig on #MNF ? What a stupid comment, Troy. https://t.co/X6UkHzBduZ
— Chrisa "Keep Your Ban Off My Body" Hickey (@Chrisa_Hickey) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman really needs to find a non-misogynistic way to critique the call besides “take the dresses off”.
And I say this as someone who heard this misogyny normalized by coaches as a kid & even participated myself. Way past time to end such sports talkpic.twitter.com/lHVhv6WdEv
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) October 11, 2022
Of course, others were quick to call out the easily offended for doing exactly that… being offended.
Some even took to Twitter to mention how the outrage over a comment like this actually works to water down other real, and actually damaging, instances on misogyny.
Troy Aikman grew up playing football in the ‘80’s, no doubt he heard phrases like “take the dresses off” his entire career.
Folks need to stop being so damned offended because everyone doesn’t always share their soft, woke sensibilities.
— Nick86 (@HertleinNick) October 11, 2022
Did my boy @TroyAikman just say “take the dresses off” yes!!! Finally someone with a voice said it!!
— Coach Jason Brown (@TheRealCoach_JB) October 11, 2022
Can’t believe the number of people getting upset about Troy Aikman saying “take the dresses off”.
Good Lord you tiny little people with tiny little brains. So easily bruised, so easily offended. You are truly what is wrong with the planet today. #takethedressesoff— Scott Murphy (@DadOf18n13) October 11, 2022
If you're bothered by the Troy Aikman comments you have far too much time on your hands
— ⚾️⚾️ Coach Griz ⚾️⚾️ (@SkolGriswold) October 11, 2022
To those who find Troy Aikman’s”take the dresses off” comment to be misogynistic,please grow up.We have a serious fight against true misogyny on our hands and cannot alienate moderates and independents with cultural nitpicking like this. It’s football not day care.
— RocknRollRabbi (@mishabendavid) October 11, 2022
Troy Aikman being criticized for saying “take off the dresses” makes me genuinely concerned for where we’ll be in 10 years 😂 we are so soft it’s unreal.
— CoachD (@CoachDedmon) October 11, 2022
