Troy Aikman Under Fire For Saying NFL Needs To 'Take The Dresses Off'

ESPN’s Troy Aikman may have gone a bit too far while blasting the NFL over the latest terrible rougher-the-passer penalty controversy.

On Sunday, the Falcons-Bucs game was ruined by a terrible roughing the passer penalty at the end of the game.

refs called this roughing the passer on 3rd down and i genuinely do not know what Grady Jarrett could have done differently pic.twitter.com/VX6i0UpJiL

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 9, 2022

Refs called another controversial roughing the passer penalty during Monday night’s Chiefs-Raiders game that saved the Raiders from turning the ball over.

Terrible roughing the passer penalty pic.twitter.com/7f35LvcNht

— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) October 11, 2022

While ripping into the NFL over roughing the passer penalties, Aikman said he hoped the competition committee would “take the dresses off” and change the roughing the passer rule.

Troy Aikman wants the NFL to “take the dresses off” and fix roughing the passer penalty pic.twitter.com/YY4MicVKvU

— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) October 11, 2022

Some fans were offended by Aikman’s remarks.

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?

— soulessGngr (@SoulessGngr) October 11, 2022

Did the commentator on MNF really just say “take the dresses off” wow. This is 2022. How are people still saying stuff like this?

— Claire Filpi (@ClaireFilpi) October 11, 2022

"I hope the competition committee takes a look at this and take the dresses off."

Yeah not a good look guys. Implying that you're a girl if you don't tackle hard? That phrase needs to go back to the 1950s.#MNF

— Rob (@Eamon1916) October 11, 2022

Did Troy aikman just say take the dresses off in reference to soft calls on the qb? #mnf Can you still say stuff like that ?

— Brian Crowley (@crowley4141) October 11, 2022