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Awful Announcing Could Eli Manning be ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ wild card?

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This originally appeared in Tuesday morning's edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing's daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. [...] ESPN secured one half of its marquee booth in September, signing Buck to a six-year, $108 million extension that keeps him on Monday Night Football through the network's 2031 Super Bowl, and most assumed Troy Aikman's renewal would arrive shortly afterward. Instead, Aikman said talks with ESPN had stalled, and Front Office Sports' Ryan Glasspiegel later reported that he and Buck argued before the Bills-Rams game at SoFi Stadium, where the longtime partners are set to call Super Bowl LXI in [...] Super Bowl LXI in February. Aikman did little to push back on the report during an appearance on KCTK The Ticket in Dallas, where he all but confirmed the tension, and he later told sports media writer Jimmy Traina why he fully expects to be gone once his contract runs out.