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Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman won three Super Bowl titles with the Dallas Cowboys during their 1990s dynasty. He announced his retirement from the NFL in 2000 after back injuries prevented him from playing any longer. Shortly after his retirement, he moved to the broadcast booth and became a color analyst with FOX.
In 2002, he joined Joe Buck in the broadcast booth where they were the lead broadcast team on FOX's Sunday NFL coverage. After 20 seasons of working in the FOX booth together, Aikman and Buck announced that they were leaving the network and moving to ESPN, where they now call "Monday Night Football" games each week.
When ESPN hired him, he signed a five-year contract worth $90 million, with him tied as the highest-paid broadcaster in the NFL. Buck's contract, however, was worth $75 million for five years.
Pitting Troy Aikman's net worth against Tony Romo's earnings
While Troy Aikman may currently be one of the highest-paid NFL broadcasters, he is tied with another former Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Tony Romo has worked with CBS Sports alongside Jim Nantz since his retirement in 2017 and is currently paid $18 million a year to be the color analyst on the lead CBS broadcast.
These figures have both former NFL quarterbacks tied as the highest-paid broadcasters in the National Football League.
The contract extension that Romo signed in 2020 makes his overall salary with CBS Sports currently worth around $180 million, which is the highest-paid broadcast contract in history.
Unlike Aikman, Romo received that contract about three seasons after making his debut in the booth. In comparison, Aikman had been calling games for FOX Sports for over 20 years before receiving the big payday that he did.
Their work schedules are relatively the same, calling just one game a week. The CBS broadcast will occasionally call games on holidays, whereas ESPN typically broadcasts just Monday night games, with the occasional late-season weekend game airing.
While both former Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks are the highest-paid at the moment, that won't last long.
Current Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has already signed a broadcast deal with FOX Sports to be the lead color analyst once he officially retires from the National Football League. He has reportedly signed a contract worth a whopping $375 million for his next role.
