Once upon a time, when ESPN gratuitous contrarian Skip Bayless worked for the Dallas Morning News and covered the Cowboys, Bayless wrote a book in which he suggested former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman is gay.
Aikman didn’t respond at the time. He now wishes he had.
“I’m upset about it because it was made up and there was nothing accurate about anything that was insinuated,” Aikman tells noted Skip Bayless anti-fan Richard Deitsch of SI.com. “And he did it, as he does everything, just for attention. I am probably more upset because I probably should have responded to it at the time it was going on. The advice to me was, ‘Hey, just don’t address it. It’s not worth it. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s ridiculous. All it’s going to do is have people continue to talk about his book.’ So I didn’t. But I probably could have responded differently and maybe that would have changed things. Maybe it wouldn’t have. But it is ridiculous, and, yeah, it bothers me. If that is a lifestyle people choose, so be it. It doesn’t affect me one way or another. But it is not my lifestyle.”
The last part will raise eyebrows because Aikman suggests sexual orientation is rooted in choice. But nothing like the eyebrows raised when Bayless made an apparently false claim about Aikman on a topic that really shouldn’t matter.
