The skinny on ... Joe Buck
by FOX Sports
He currently handles lead play-by-play duties for FOX Sports' Award winning NFL and MLB coverage, teaming with future Hall of Famer Troy Aikman while on assignment with the NFL on FOX, and three-time Emmy Award-winning analyst Tim McCarver while working out of the MLB on FOX booth.
Buck is the first play-by-play announcer to handle lead MLB and NFL coverage in the same year since NBC's Curt Gowdy and ABC's Al Michaels. Working Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 made him the youngest announcer to ever to call a Super Bowl (35) and the first play-by-play announcer to call the World Series and Super Bowl in the same season since Michaels called the 1987 Fall Classic and Super Bowl XXII in January 1988.
In addition, he has called seven World Series, including the Subway Series between the Yankees and Mets, back-to-back seven gamers in 2001 and 2002 and the Red Sox' historic sweep last October, not to mention two classic seven game ALCS between the Red Sox and Yankees in 2003 and 2004.
Buck joined FOX Sports in 1994, and along with analyst Tim Green, formed one of the NFL on FOX's six original NFL broadcast teams. Just 25 years old in '94, Buck was the youngest announcer to call a full slate of NFL games on network television. The two worked together for four seasons before Buck began to focus exclusively on his MLB duties.
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