LIFESTYLE AUTHOR
Landry Allred
DARE TO DREAM WITH TROY AIKMAN n Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame
quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and now NFL sportscaster, shares how he made his dreams a reality.
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rom a young age, Troy Aikman remembered only ever wanting to be a professional athlete. Now, after 12 years of playing football for the Dallas Cowboys and 21 years of being an NFL sportscaster, the Hall of Fame quarterback can look back on his life and see the ways his dreams — both wished for and unexpected — became a reality. Aikman was born and raised in Southern California until he was 12 when his family moved to Oklahoma. During this time, his primary passion wasn’t football but baseball. “(If ) I had stayed in California, I probably would’ve
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gone on to play college baseball and, hopefully then, professionally,” Aikman says. “My first love, which was baseball, then became football once I got into high school.” While attending the University of Oklahoma, he played football for two years, broke his leg and later transferred to UCLA. He played for UCLA for two years and was finally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1989. After 12 years with the Cowboys, he retired from professional football in 2000. Before retiring, he had called some NFL games for FOX and later stepped into NFL sportscasting after he retired, which he has now been doing for 21 years and counting.
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