Joe Buck on not calling World Series: “That’s really weird to me”
“I would like to be in Cabo San Lucas with a margarita in my hand and a half-smoked cigar watching Game 7 of the World Series."
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Thursday’s Joe Buck PGA Championship broadcast will feature Peyton, Eli, Scott Van Pelt, Ken Griffey Jr. and more
J.J. Watt, Travis Kelce, Michael Phelps, Doris Burke, and Fred Couples are also on board.
Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as their lead NFL analyst after he retires
Brady will continue to be a prominent figure on NFL Sundays for a very long time.
Bob Costas: Networks spend millions on NFL broadcasters for “prestige”
"Football not only reigns over all sports as a business property. It reigns over all American entertainment"
Dan Le Batard: All the broadcasting money just went to a bunch of older white dudes
"I don’t see a whole lot of diversity in the people who are going to be at microphones"
Greg Gumbel doesn’t think broadcasters attract fans: “Moe, Larry, and Curly can do a good football game”
"The only thing a broadcaster can do is chase people away."
Fox picks Kevin Burkhardt to replace Joe Buck as lead NFL voice
The lead analyst role is still being considered, but it's possible Fox ends up moving both Burkhardt and Greg Olsen up together.
Troy Aikman: “Disappointing” Fox didn’t attempt to keep me from joining ESPN
"I guess what’s perplexing to me is that I had no conversation with my boss."
ESPN giving a Big Ten game to Fox in exchange for landing Joe Buck a year early
Sadly no cartoon characters are changing hands, but the deal did involve Big Ten football rights this fall.
Joe Buck explains leaving Fox for ESPN was a “quality of life move”
"They didn’t want me to go. They have a Super Bowl this year."
Rob Parker wonders why Black broadcasters aren’t getting high-paying NFL gigs
"I got a problem with why there hasn’t been to this point, a Black analyst on a major primetime broadcast."
Erin Andrews was in tears when Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left Fox for ESPN
"When I had to speak to both of those guys separately when they both had officially left, oh God I cried."
Joe Buck’s final Fox appearance: being eliminated on The Masked Singer
Al Michaels closed his tenure on NBC by calling the Super Bowl, Joe Buck said goodbye to Fox by appearing on the Masked Singer.
