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Troy Aikman is still mad that sportswrer Skip Bayls speculated 16 years ago a book that the then Dallas Cowboys quarterback might be gay.

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SKIP BAYLS 'DUMBFOUND' TROY AIKMAN GOT UPSET OVER GAY CLAIM

Skip Bayls and Troy Aikman haven't seen each other sce the former Dallas lumnist wildly speculated that the ex-Cowboys quarterback was gay.

"No one who read that book thought Troy Aikman was gay.

An off-duty Dallas police officer who traveled wh the Cowboys and worked secury at their hotels first told me that ‘the word on the street’ was that Troy Aikman was gay. “While he was workg on the book Skip would ll me all exced and tell me that he got rmatn about Troy beg the back of a r a gay area of Melrose, ” says Dean Blevs, the veteran Dallas rad host.

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“In a book (Hell-Bent) on the Dallas Cowboys the 1990s, ” Desch wrote, “Bayls ma an unsubstantiated claim that Aikman was gay. If there’s one fact repeatedly ced criqu of Bayls, other than his ma-for-TV fd wh Stephen A., ’s this: 20 years ago, Bayls may or may not have claimed a book that Aikman was gay. They all said there was no evince Aikman was gay.

(“[I]f a stud quarterback speaks openly of how much he lov spendg time wh his ‘buddi’ … is he tomatilly brand ‘gay’ our macho, homophobic society? ”) Bayls wrote that Swzer himself sometim stayed a hotel Dallas’s “gay district” — someone wh an agenda uld start a mor about him. In the book, he didn’t claim Aikman was gay.

It was mon to hear then — as ’s mon to read now — that Bayls was wrg an “Aikman is gay” book. His words — as reprted Hell-Bent — were: “I am not gay.

TROY AIKMAN: I'M NOT GAY, BUT SKIP BAYLS MIGHT BE

Another lumnist lled Hell-Bent “voyristic journalism”: “The upshot is that nws wh microphon and notepads have spent this week askg … Aikman, one form or another, ‘Are you gay? He was fur that Hell-Bent was beg dismissed as an “Aikman is gay” tell-all.

Did Bayls claim Hell-Bent that Troy Aikman was gay? Did he prt claims om other, unnamed persons that Aikman was gay? Today, our most-read story om 2015: Troy Aikman said that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose.

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