TAKE TWO: Bayless is ‘Undisputed’ king of bad opinions

Though Skip Bayless has said he’s excited for the freedom he’ll have at Fox Sports, not everyone at the network is as thrilled with the hire.

The show’s stars – former ESPN pundit Skip Bayless, NFL Hall-of-Famer Shannon Sharpe and moderator Joy Taylor – also get air time in the clip.

Troy Aikman can’t quit Skip Bayless.

That move didn’t sit well with Troy Aikman, Fox’s lead National Football League analyst and one of the most well-respected figures in sports media.

“I’m upset about it because it was made up and there was nothing accurate about anything that was insinuated”, Aikman told Sports Illustrated about the book previous year. The former Dallas Morning News sports editor Dave Smith told author Jeff Pearlman for his 2009 book on the Cowboys (“Boys Will Be Boys”) that Bayless’s “gay take on Aikman was the most unfair thing in my 45 years of journalism”.

“I didn’t spend much time pondering the Aikman rumor until October of 1995, when several members of the Switzer camp told me about new “incidents.’ They said the team had been informed ‘by the police” that Aikman ‘had been in some places he shouldn’t have been'”.

Fox Sports president Shanks will have to walk a fine line to cool those feelings among all involved, including Aikman and Bayless.

The shock jock’s first push to fame came as a columnist in Dallas when he wrote a book on the 1990s Cowboys, in which he made an unsubstantiated suggestion that Aikman is gay. “And I still kind of wonder what I might do to him when I do see him”.

Now viewers may be tuning in on Wednesday morning to find out if Skip Bayless will offer Troy Aikman an apology or if he’ll even address the issue at all.