What Happened To Joe Buck?
Joseph Buck, is a sportscaster in the United States. From its debut in 1994 to 2024, he worked for Fox Sports, holding positions as the network’s principal play-by-play announcer for both the National Football League and Major League Baseball. With the exception of 1997 and 1999, when Bob Costas called the World Series for NBC, he was the play-by-play announcer for the World Series from 1996 to 2021. Buck relocated to ESPN in 2024 and will work as the primary play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football there.
Where Is Joe Buck Going?
ESPN announced that they had hired Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to call Monday Night Football. Troy Aikman had finished his contract, but Joe Buck still had a year remaining. However, ESPN and Fox worked out a deal, and Joe Buck moved to ESPN. Joe Buck has been called gamed for FOX since it was created in 1994, and Troy Aikman has been working with them since 2001. They started working together in 2002.
Why Did Joe Buck Leave Fox?
Rumours have been going around for a long time that Troy Aikman was moving to Amazon to call Thursday Night Football, but he has moved to ESPN, and he wanted to take his partner Joe Buck with him. Joe Buck gave an interview and discussed what happened. Joe Buck confirmed that he had parted ways with Fox on good terms. The Fox CEO said, “We love you, it makes me sick to my stomach, but we understand why you wanna go.”
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman’s 2024 Monday Night Football debut will mark their 21st NFL season together in the booth, matching the legendary Pat Summerall and John Madden’s all-time record as on-air NFL partners. pic.twitter.com/cdxG3IvjXI— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 16, 2024
Where Is Joe Buck Today
Joe Buck is currently working for ESPN. He was asked how Fox News let them go during the interview. Joe Buck said, “I don’t know. They have their reasons, and they have the business that they’re running, and Troy had an out, and he had a chance to go out on the market and see what he [could] get. But I think all along, his No. 1 choice was to go back to Fox, and that’s what I was hoping for, and that didn’t materialise.”
Like most kids of my generation, I grew up watching MNF w Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell & my mom’s favorite Don Meredith so you can only imagine my excitement to be part of the legacy of MNF & continue working w Joe Buck, my broadcast partner for the last 20 years!#MNFonESPN???? pic.twitter.com/MKPeqncs0l— Troy Aikman (@TroyAikman) March 16, 2024
Where Is Joe Buck Tonight
The longest-running NFL broadcast booth duo of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman is one that many NFL fans have grown to love over the years. They will have worked in the booth for “Monday Night Football” on ESPN for 21 seasons starting in 2024. Six times, they have called the Super Bowl. Buck stated that he is grateful for the time he spent there and that he was not “hurt” by Fox’s decision to release him from his contract. He also added that he has no ill will against the network and its executives.
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