Joe Buck remains an NFL announcing fixture, and it doesn’t sound like he’s planning on changing that any time soon.
Buck, 56, is in his fourth season calling Monday Night Football for ESPN alongside Troy Aikman. Prior to that, he worked at Fox Sports from 1994-2022, beginning his career there as the youngest person to announce a full schedule of NFL games for a major network.
Buck hasn’t shown signs of slowing down. On a new episode of “Pardon My Take” with Barstool Big Cat and PFT Commenter, Buck was asked how long he plans on doing what he’s doing.
His response indicates it is going to be a while.
“I don’t know. 10 years, 12 years, 15 years?” said Buck. “I’m not gonna do the ‘man makes plans and God laughs.’ I have no idea, I could get hit by a bus getting out of here.”
A legendary career continues
Now with more than three decades in sports television to his name, Buck still has more to add to his resume.
He and Aikman called six Super Bowls together at FOX, the most recent one coming in 2020. Next year, ESPN has the rights to the Super Bowl for the first time, meaning Buck and his partner will join a prestigious list of broadcasters to call football’s biggest game for multiple networks.
“I can’t wait to do it next year.”
Joe Buck on calling Super Bowl LXI for ESPN
Others on this list include:
- John Madden
- Pat Summerall
- Frank Gifford
- Phil Simms
“When we were doing it on a regular basis, we were doing it every three years. And it felt like every three years was about the right pace to that because it is big,” Buck told Big Cat and PFT about being on the mic for the Super Bowl. “I can’t wait to do it next year. We’re doing it next year at ABC/ESPN…it’s going to be the biggest day in ESPN history, I think, with what’s on the line.
“To get back into that rotation for Troy and me. There’s no day like it. And in broadcasting, to talk into a microphone and know there’s that many people on the other end – 94 percent of which are not listening to one word you’re saying, they want to watch the commercials and see if their bet worked – but it’s really cool.”
Joe Buck’s Super Bowl LX prediction
As far as this season goes, Buck recently revealed his pick to win it all in February.
He has the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles again coming out of the NFC, with the Buffalo Bills breaking through in the AFC.
Buck then thinks the Bills and quarterback Josh Allen will finally exorcise their franchise demons and beat the Eagles in Super Bowl LX.
