You can count Bill Simmons among those who love the building on-air tension between feuding “Monday Night Football” announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

The Ringer founder said as much in a response to a mailbag question on his “Bill Simmons Podcast” asking him if ESPN is “really going to do this to us through the rest of the football season through the Super Bowl?’

“I feel completely the opposite. I love it,” Simmons, a former ESPN columnist and analyst, said. “I want them to stay together and just be in mutual hatred.”

Podcast guest Joe House, Simmons’ college buddy who also appears on gambling podcasts, concurred that he “could not agree more,” before adding, “I’m with you. Yes, please. I love it.”

Aikman, whose ESPN contract is set to expire after the Super Bowl, reportedly blew up at Buck before a “MNF” broadcast between the Bills and Rams on Oct.2, as first reported by Front Office Sports.

A subsequent report in The Athletic stated that the Hall of Fame quarterback also got into an argument that night with ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro.

‘Troy does this thing where Buck is setting [him] up, and Troy’s just like, ‘Yeah, you’re exactly right, Joe,’” Simmons said, laughing.

House then chimed in calling the situation “an extra reason to watch,” before adding, “I’m there for the drama. I mean, it’s super-intriguing.”

“That’s a great point, Joe,” Simmons said. “He looks like somebody’s in his ear piece giving him the worst news possible about the stock market that day and telling Troy that his Crypto account got wiped out. I love it, I don’t want them to break up Keep them together.”

The discussion was set upo by Simmons reading an email from a viewer in Alabama calling the Aikman-Buck kerfuffle “uncomfortable.”

“Am I the only one that feels uncomfortable watching ‘Monday Night Football’ with Aikman and Buck?” Simmons read from the fan. “It feels like I’m at a couples dinner in a nice restaurant with another couple that everyone knows is getting divorced and they can barely hide their disgust for one another.

“The dinner conversation doesn’t flow, lots of eye rolls, they’re only staying together for the kids, drsgging down the evening.”

Buck agreed to a six-year extension with ESPN worth around $108 million in September, according to The Athletic, to remain as the play-by-play voice of “Monday Night Football,” including the Super Bowl this season and in 2031.

Aikman’s five-year, $90 million deal is set to expire after the Super Bowl in February,

Buck and Aikman have worked together since 2002, making them the longest-running booth pairing in NFL history.