A lot of really good stuff ends up lost in editing down a 30-second public service announcement.

That’s what happened when the Cowboys' Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman was interviewed for an upcoming public service announcement. His spot, which begins airing early next month, kicks off the fourth season of Extra Yard for Teachers, a campaign by the Irving-based College Football Playoff Foundation that honors pre-K through high school educators.

Aikman, two fellow Dallas Cowboys greats — Darren Woodson and Russell Maryland — and Tim Brown, another Pro Football Hall of Famer and a product of Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, each give shout-outs to a teacher who changed his life.

For Aikman, it was Jean Froman at Henryetta High School in Oklahoma, who mentored him in and outside the classroom.

Henryetta High School typing teacher Jean Froman coached Troy Aikman to Oklahoma's typing title in 1983.

What the PSA doesn’t tell you is that Froman actually turned Aikman into the state’s champion typist in 1983.

Aikman was a 16-year-old sophomore when he and several buddies took Typing 1, thinking it would be fun and an easy grade.

But to his surprise, Aikman immediately took to typing and to Froman as his coach in life.

“I would get done with my typing assignments so early in class that I would have 20 minutes to kill. I'd just go and pull up a chair and sit next to her at the front of the class. No one in the class liked that at all,” he says.

“She had a brother who was a head football coach at a high school up in Tulsa, so I spent a lot of time talking to her about football, life and athletics, setbacks and overcoming obstacles and whatever it'd be.”

Teenager Troy Aikman's Henryetta High School typing teacher, Jean Froman, helped turn the football star into the state of Oklahoma's champion typist in 1983.

Even though his buddies bailed out of typing the next year, Aikman took Typing 2 — largely because of Froman.

But there was one other thing: “All the great-looking girls in school were in that class, and I was then the only guy.”

So what about winning the state typing championship?

His year-older sister, Tammy, was supposed to be their high school’s contender. She was the better typist, but she balked at the thought of competitive pressure.

“She said, ‘You know, you're used to competing. You go, and you'll do better than I will,’ ” he recalls for the camera. “So I went, thinking I was just gonna miss a day of school.”

When he got to the competition, once again he was the only guy.

Not on his resume

“I thought I did pretty good. I didn't think I did great,” he says. “At the end of the day, when they had the assembly to hand out the awards, they announced the typing award and mentioned my name.

“Everyone knew already that I was an athlete,” he says. “And for me to go down the aisle as the typing winner was not one of my proudest moments, although winning the award certainly meant a lot.”

He says it’s not on his resume, but maybe it should be. He notes that typing is a skill that has come in handy in the digital age.

Froman and Aikman are still great friends.

“What most kids are looking for is for someone to take an interest in their life and kind of help them along the way. She certainly was able to do that for me.”

Darren Woodson’s PSA cites Dave McGuire, his sixth-grade homeroom teacher at P.T. Coe Elementary in Phoenix, who taught him to be on time. Russell Maryland learned to come prepared and ready to learn from his taskmaster English teacher, Al Frances Sharpe, at Whitney Young High School in Chicago.

And Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, credits his Woodrow Wilson English teacher, Arlene Cooper, who upended his course schedule two weeks into his freshman year with honors courses — a prerequisite for admission into Notre Dame.

Note: This story has been updated to correct the first name of Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown. An earlier version incorrectly referred to him as Tom Brown.