DALLAS, Texas — Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks past, Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, and present, Dak Prescott, teamed up to be Honorary Chairs for the Children’s Cancer Fund’s “A Knight to Remember” Gala to give pediatric cancer patients and survivors a memorable evening.
The event featured a fashion show highlighting 23 pediatric cancer patients walking the runway with celebrity escorts. Both quarterbacks are incredibly passionate about the event as Friday was Aikman’s 25th or 26th, in his own words, and Prescott’s second. The duo have each won Walter Payton Man of the Awards, and they remain passionate about giving back to the Dallas community.
“Well, it stays,” Aikman, the 1997 NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year award winner, said of the legacy of winning that award, on Friday. “What I think the league has done a great job of, and I have credited and I continue to credit Roger Goodell for that. He’s made the man of the year award really the the most highly-sought, prestigious award of the year when it’s handed out at the [NFL] honors, which is fantastic. There’s so many great candidates and because the league, it’s so important to them, it means a lot then to receive that award. I will say that there are so many, so many players, there’s one from every team. So you got the 32 that are nominated each year, only one gets it. But there are so many other players that do so much good in their communities. I’ve always felt that way. I saw it when I played, I still see it. Even as a broadcaster when the man of the year comes around and the people that are up for being nominated just by their respective teams. It means a lot.”
Players who have won the award and still play in the NFL today receive a permeant patch on the front of their jerseys to honor receiving the Walter Payton award, and now Aikman has a jersey of his own since that wasn’t part of the NFL’s policy during his playing days.
“I just received a jersey because now to take it a step further as to what the the award means is you know Dak will have the Man of the Year emblem on his jersey,” Aikman said. “They weren’t doing that when I received it. Just this week as a matter of fact, Nationwide who sponsors that, sent out a Cowboys jersey with my jersey number and name and with the emblem on it so that I would have one of those. So it means a lot to be a part of it. I know that there’s a lot of other…
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