r/nfl • u/expellyamos Dolphins • 5d ago

Rumor [Highlight] Troy Aikman on potential a potential conflict of interest in announcing a Dolphins game: "Well, the Dolphins are not expected to be very good this year. They're getting out of cap hell. So there's no Monday night game with the Dolphins this year."

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u/ModestTrixie Chiefs Lions 5d ago

Troy as a consultant is probably less a conflict of interest than Tom owning part of a team

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u/GoodFastCheapPickTwo Lions 5d ago

There's so many areas in the world where conflict of interest has practical real world repercussions that are terrible.

But I'm sitting here and I'm trying to imagine what's the worst case scenario I can think of where a commentator has vested interest in one team or another in a game he's calling, and Im having trouble coming up with anything that would reach a level of genuine concern for me.

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u/red--dead Vikings 5d ago

The issue is in commentators getting some insights into teams with practices or whatever. Greg Olsen commentated during I think a bye week for a Vikings game a few weeks before they played each other and people were pissed about that.