Andy Reid wanted Troy Aikman to join the Eagles after his retirement.

Once upon a time, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Hall of Famer Troy Aikman was in the television booth doing an NFL game for the network when he received a phone call. It was from Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid. Reid had just lost his starting quarterback, Donovan McNabb, to an injury, and wanted to ask Aikman an important question.

Aikman picks up the story from here. “We’re getting ready to go to halftime, and my producer says, ‘Hey, I’ve got a number that I need you to call at halftime,’ which he had never done. I was in my third year broadcasting, in the middle of a broadcast, trying to call from the booth at halftime, and there’s no cell service,” said Aikman on the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast.

So Aikman leaves the booth, and to his surprise, it was Reid on the other end of the phone. “He said, ‘Hey, it’s Andy. ’ I said, ‘Andy Reid?

’ He says, ‘You heard what happened [to McNabb], didn’t you? ’ I said ‘Yeah, we just did a game break on it. ’ He says ‘Well, I wanna talk to you.