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| name        = Joe Buck
| image       = Joe Buck 2018 PIT (cropped).png
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| caption     = Buck in 2018
| birth_name  = Joseph Francis Buck
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1969|4|25}}
| birth_place = [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], U.S.
| education   = [[Indiana University Bloomington]] (did not graduate)
| occupation = Sports commentator
| years_active = 1989–present
| parents     = [[Jack Buck]] (father)
| children    = 4
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|{{marriage|[[Michelle Beisner]]|2014}}
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 | genre = [[Play-by-play]]
 | sport = [[National Football League|NFL]], [[Major League Baseball|MLB]], [[United States Golf Association|USGA]]
 | employer = {{ubl|[[Fox Sports]] (1994–2021)|[[ESPN]]/[[ESPN on ABC|ABC]] (2022–present)}}
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'''Joseph Francis Buck''' (born April 25, 1969)<ref>
{{cite book |last=Silvia|first=Tony|author-link= |date= July 2009|title=Fathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting: The Carays, Brennamans, Bucks and ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ov7YkUl6q4gC|location= |publisher= McFarland|page=61|isbn=9780786438150}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Light |first1=Jonathan Fraser |title=The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball |date=March 25, 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1744-2 |page=146 |edition=2d |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iI0-CgAAQBAJ |access-date=July 31, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> is an American [[sportscaster]] for ESPN. 

The son of sportscaster [[Jack Buck]], he worked for [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]] from its 1994 inception through 2022, including roles as lead play-by-play announcer for the network's [[NFL on Fox|National Football League]] and [[Major League Baseball on Fox|Major League Baseball]] coverage. He served as a television play-by-play announcer for the [[World Series]] over a 25-year span from [[1996 World Series|1996]] to [[2021 World Series|2021]] (with the exceptions of [[1997 World Series|1997]] and [[1999 World Series|1999]], in which [[Bob Costas]] called those particular World Series for [[Major League Baseball on NBC|NBC]]). 

In 2022, Buck moved to [[ESPN]] from [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]]. He is the lead play-by-play announcer for ''[[Monday Night Football]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/sports/football/joe-buck-troy-aikman-monday-night-football.html|title=Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to Host 'Monday Night Football'|newspaper=The New York Times|last=Chen|first=David W.|date=March 16, 2022|access-date=March 20, 2022}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Buck was born in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] (where the [[St. Louis Cardinals]], for whom his father broadcast, then conducted their [[spring training]]) and raised in the [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] area, where he attended [[St. Louis Country Day School]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Making a Name for Himself; Jack Buck's Son Calls the Playoffs, Series for Fox|last=Tuttle|first=Dennis|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=October 14, 2000}}</ref> He began his broadcasting career in 1989 while he was an undergraduate at [[Indiana University Bloomington]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100625233301/http://journalism.indiana.edu/notices/fox-sports-joe-buck-wraps-up-speaker-series/ Fox Sports’ Joe Buck wraps up Speaker Series] ''[[Indiana University Bloomington]]''</ref>

==Career==

===Before Fox===
Buck called play-by-play for the then-[[Louisville Bats|Louisville Redbirds]], a [[minor league baseball|minor league]] affiliate of the Cardinals, and was a reporter for [[ESPN]]'s coverage of the [[Triple-A All-Star Game]] in 1989. In 1991, he did reporting for St Louis' CBS affiliate [[KMOV]]. Also, in [[1991 St. Louis Cardinals season|1991]] Buck began broadcasting for the Cardinals on local television and [[KMOX (AM)|KMOX]] Radio, filling in while his father was working on [[Major League Baseball on CBS|CBS]] telecasts. In the 1992–93 season, he was the play-by-play voice for [[Missouri Tigers men's basketball|University of Missouri basketball]] broadcasts.

Buck continued to call Cardinals games after being hired by Fox Sports, initially with his father on KMOX and later on [[Bally Sports Midwest|FSN Midwest]] television. As his network duties increased, however, his local workload shrank, and before the [[2008 St. Louis Cardinals season|2008]] season, it was announced that he would no longer be calling Cardinals telecasts for FSN Midwest. This marked the first time since [[1960 St. Louis Cardinals season|1960]] that a member of the Buck family was not part of the team's broadcasting crew.<ref>{{cite news|title=Run of Bucks broadcasting Cardinals comes to an end |first=Dan|last=Caesar |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=March 4, 2008}}</ref>

=== Fox Sports (1994–2021) ===

====Hiring at Fox====
In [[1994 NFL season|1994]], Buck was hired by [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], and at the age of 25 became the youngest man ever to announce a regular slate of [[NFL on Fox|National Football League]] (NFL) games on network television.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Buck |url= http://www.foxsports.com/presspass/bios/on-air/joe-buck |website= Fox Sports PressPass |access-date= March 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311153733/https://www.foxsports.com/presspass/bios/on-air/joe-buck|archive-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref>

====''Major League Baseball on Fox''====
[[File:Buck McCarver Obama All-Star Game 2009.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Joe Buck (''right'') with President [[Barack Obama]] and [[Tim McCarver]] (''left'') during the [[2009 MLB All-Star Game]] in St. Louis]]
In 1996, he was named Fox's lead play-by-play voice for [[Major League Baseball on Fox|Major League Baseball]], teaming with [[Tim McCarver]], who had previously worked with his father on CBS. That year, he became the youngest man to do a national broadcast (for all nine innings and games, as a network employee as opposed to simply being a representative of one of the participating teams) for a [[1996 World Series|World Series]], surpassing [[Sean McDonough]], who called the [[1992 World Series]] for [[Major League Baseball on CBS|CBS]] at the age of 30. McDonough had replaced Jack Buck as CBS's lead baseball play-by-play man after he was fired in late 1991.

On September 8, 1998, Buck called [[Mark McGwire]]'s 62nd [[home run]] that broke [[Roger Maris]]' single-season record.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kent |first1=Milton |title=Record-breaker by McGwire forced Buck to change his tune |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-09-10-1998253082-story.html |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=September 10, 1998 |access-date=March 16, 2022}}</ref> The game was nationally televised live in prime time on Fox. It was a rarity for a nationally televised regular season game not to be aired on [[Cable television in the United States|cable]] since the end of the ''[[Monday Night Baseball|Monday]]''/''[[Thursday Night Baseball]]'' era on [[Major League Baseball on ABC|ABC]] in 1989.

During Fox's broadcast of the [[2002 World Series]], Buck paid implicit tribute to his father, who had died a few months earlier (he had read the eulogy at his father's funeral) by calling the final out of Game 6 (which tied the series at 3–3, and thus ensured there would be a Game 7 broadcast the next night) with the phrase, "We'll see you tomorrow night." This was the same phrase with which Jack Buck had famously called [[Kirby Puckett]]'s home run off [[1991 Atlanta Braves season|Braves]] [[pitcher]] [[Charlie Leibrandt]], which ended Game 6 of the [[1991 World Series]]. Since then, Joe has continued to use this phrase at appropriate times, including Game 4 of the [[2004 American League Championship Series|2004 ALCS]], in which the [[2004 Boston Red Sox season|Boston Red Sox]] famously rallied off [[2004 New York Yankees season|New York Yankees]] closer [[Mariano Rivera]] in the 9th inning to avoid elimination. When [[David Ortiz]]'s walk-off home run finally won it for the Red Sox in the 12th inning, Buck uttered, "We'll see you later tonight," alluding to the fact that the game had extended into the early morning. He also used the phrase at the end of Game 6 of the [[2011 World Series]] when the [[2011 St. Louis Cardinals season|Cardinals]]' [[David Freese]] hit a walk-off home run in the 11th inning against the [[2011 Texas Rangers season|Rangers]] to send the series to a seventh game (it was 20 years and a day since Kirby Puckett's home run).<ref>{{cite web |last1=von Horn |first1=Steve |title=Remaking World Series History: Joe Buck's Game 6 Call Of Freese HR Is Historic In Its Own Right |url=https://stlouis.sbnation.com/st-louis-cardinals/2011/10/28/2520595/world-series-history-joe-buck-jack-buck-game-6-david-freese |website=SBNation.com |date=October 28, 2011 |publisher=Vox Media |access-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref> The similarity of both the call and the game situation resulted in mentions on national news broadcasts.

Another notable [[2013 Boston Red Sox season|Red Sox]] game in the ALCS was in {{alcsy|2013}}, Game 2 against the [[2013 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]] at Fenway Park. The Red Sox were trailing 5–1 in the bottom of the eighth inning, with the bases loaded with David Ortiz at-bat. Ortiz hit a game-tying [[Grand slam (baseball)|grand slam]] off Tigers' closer [[Joaquín Benoit]]. His call: "Hard hit into right, back at the wall," and then he calls, "TIE GAME!" as the ball flies over [[Torii Hunter]], who flipped over the outfield wall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/10/14/boston-sports-comebacks|title=Big comeback for Boston sports|publisher=WBUR.org|access-date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>

Later with Fox, Buck called a limited selection of regular-season games each year (typically featuring big-market teams such as the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]], [[Boston Red Sox|Red Sox]], [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Dodgers]], and/or [[Chicago Cubs|Cubs]]), as well as the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]], one of the [[League Championship Series]], and the [[World Series]]. From 2016 to 2021, he was paired with color analyst [[John Smoltz]] and field reporter [[Ken Rosenthal]]. Besides working with [[Tim McCarver]] for 18 seasons (1996–2013), Buck also worked with former MLB player and current MLB Network/Fox Sports analyst [[Harold Reynolds]] and baseball insider [[Tom Verducci]] for 2 seasons (2014–2015). About a month or two after the [[2015 World Series]], Reynolds and Verducci were demoted to the #2 team and John Smoltz moved up from the #2 team (with [[Matt Vasgersian]]) to take Reynolds and Verducci's places.

From 1996 to 2021, Buck called 23 [[World Series]] and 21 [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Games]] for Fox, the most of any play-by-play announcer on network television.

As the lead play-by-play announcer for MLB on Fox, Buck called games between the [[Yankees–Red Sox rivalry|New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox]] that were broadcast on Fox and FS1. He called many notable moments in the rivalry, including [[Aaron Boone]]'s walk off home run in Game 7 of the [[2003 American League Championship Series|2003 ALCS]], saying "The Boston Red Sox...were five outs away in the eighth inning, leading by three, as Boone hits it to deep left. That might send the Yankees to the World Series. Boone the hero of Game 7!"

====''NFL on Fox''====
[[File:Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.png|thumb|right|Buck and [[Troy Aikman]] in 2018]]

Soon after arriving at Fox, Buck became the play-by-play man on Fox's #4 [[NFL on Fox|NFL]] broadcast team, with [[Tim Green]] as his color commentator. After three years, he stopped doing NFL games to concentrate on his baseball duties full-time. During the 2001 season, Buck occasionally filled in for [[Curt Menefee]] as Fox's number-six play-by-play man.

Buck became Fox's top play-by-play man in [[2002 NFL season|2002]], replacing [[Pat Summerall]]. For many seasons, he was teamed with [[Troy Aikman]] as [[color commentator]] and [[Erin Andrews]] as the [[sideline reporter]]. (Buck also worked with [[Cris Collinsworth]] from 2002 to 2004, before the latter's move to [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]], [[NFL Network]], and [[NBC]].) Buck is only the third announcer to handle a television network's lead MLB and NFL coverage in the same year (following [[NBC]]'s [[Curt Gowdy]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s [[Al Michaels]]). By 2002, his Fox duties forced him to cut his local [[2002 St. Louis Cardinals season|Cardinals]] schedule to 25 games. (Eventually, Buck left the Cardinals altogether to join Fox Sports "full-time" in 2008.)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Caesar |first1=Dan |title=Run of Bucks Broadcasting Cardinals Games Comes to an End |url=http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/joebuckleavescards.html |website=American Sportscasters |publisher=St. Louis Dispatch |access-date=September 27, 2018}}</ref> Notable games he called included [[Super Bowl XLII]], [[Miracle at the New Meadowlands]], [[Super Bowl LI]], the [[Minneapolis Miracle]], and the [[1994 Green Bay Packers season|final]] [[Green Bay Packers]] [[Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee|home game in Milwaukee]] at [[Milwaukee County Stadium|County Stadium]].

During the [[2006 NFL season|2006]] season, Buck briefly hosted Fox's pre-game show ''[[Fox NFL Sunday]]'', with him and [[Curt Menefee]] jointly replacing [[James Brown (sportscaster)|James Brown]]. To accommodate his involvement, the show began to broadcast on-site from the location of Fox's top game of the week. In 2007, Buck stepped down as host to focus on his play-by-play duties, and ''Fox NFL Sunday'' reverted to primarily being broadcast from Fox Sports' studios in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |author=Fox Press Release |date=March 29, 2007 |title=Fox NFL Sunday & the OT return to Los Angeles home in September |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070329fox03 |website=The Futon Critic}}</ref>

====Two-sport, same-day doubleheader====
On October 14, 2012, Buck called a doubleheader, first with the [[2012 New York Giants season|New York Giants]]-[[2012 San Francisco 49ers season|San Francisco 49ers]] game at [[Candlestick Park]] at 1:25 PM PDT, then traveled via [[Trolleybuses in San Francisco|trolley]] for the seven-mile journey up the west shore of the [[San Francisco Bay]] to call Game 1 of the [[2012 National League Championship Series|NLCS]] between the [[2012 St. Louis Cardinals season|St. Louis Cardinals]] and the [[2012 San Francisco Giants season|San Francisco Giants]] at [[Oracle Park|AT&T Park]] at 5:15 PM PDT.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2012/10/15/joe-buck-tomlinson-tebow|title=Joe Buck's double duty; Ex-Jet Tomlinson blasts Sanchez|access-date=March 16, 2022|author=Richard Deitsch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507030810/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/richard_deitsch/10/15/joe-buck-tomlinson-tebow/|archive-date=May 7, 2014|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>

The opportunity presented itself again on October 28, 2018, when Fox would carry the [[2018 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]] and [[2018 Los Angeles Rams season|Los Angeles Rams]] from the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] as its featured NFL game before Game 5 of the [[2018 World Series]] between the [[2018 Boston Red Sox season|Boston Red Sox]] and the [[2018 Los Angeles Dodgers season|Los Angeles Dodgers]], to be played five miles away at [[Dodger Stadium]]. However, Buck chose to concentrate on baseball, citing [[Transportation in Los Angeles|traffic]] concerns in Los Angeles and already being busy calling the NFL and MLB simultaneously. [[Thom Brennaman]], who had served as Buck's fill-in during the MLB postseason in the past, handled the Packers-Rams game.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/buck-s-love-for-baseball-strong-going-into-21st-world-series-102218|title=Buck's love for baseball strong going into 21st World Series|access-date=October 24, 2018|agency=Associated Press|periodical=Fox Sports|date=October 22, 2018}}</ref>

====USGA tournaments====
In April 2014, it was announced that Buck would team with [[Greg Norman]] to anchor Fox's [[Golf on Fox|new package]] of [[United States Golf Association]] telecasts, most prominently the [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-central-blog/norman-buck-anchor-15-us-open-coverage-fox|title=Norman, Buck to anchor U.S. Open coverage for Fox|publisher=Golf Channel|last=Gray|first=Will|date=April 15, 2014|access-date=March 16, 2022}}</ref> The pair made their broadcast debut at the [[Franklin Templeton Shootout]] (an event also hosted by Norman) on December 12–14, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/joe-buck-greg-norman-set-tv-debut-franklin-templeton-shootout-debut|title=Joe Buck, Greg Norman set for Golf TV Debut at Franklin Templeton|last=Mohler|first=Brendan|publisher=Golf.com|date=December 12, 2014|access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref> Norman was fired by Fox and replaced with [[Paul Azinger]] in 2016.

===HBO Sports (2009–2010)===
On February 5, 2009, Buck signed with [[HBO]] to host a sports-based talk show for the network called ''[[Joe Buck Live]]'', with a format similar to that of ''[[Costas Now]]'', the monthly HBO program previously hosted by [[Bob Costas]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/hbo-taps-joe-buck-sports-show-34093 | title=HBO taps Joe Buck for sports show | first=Alex|last=Weprin | magazine=Broadcasting & Cable | date=February 5, 2009|access-date=March 16, 2022|publisher=NextTV}}</ref>
The show's debut on June 15, 2009, made national headlines due to the tension-filled banter between Buck and guest [[Artie Lange]], a comedian from ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'', who made several jokes at Buck's expense.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/2009-06-16-artie-lange-joe-buck_N.htm | title=Comedian Lange Crosses the Line on 'Joe Buck Live' | first=Michael|last=McCarthy | publisher="USA Today" | date=June 16, 2009}}</ref>  Two more episodes aired in 2009. In March 2010, Buck told a St. Louis radio station that HBO might be planning to cancel ''Joe Buck Live'', adding that he "won't miss" the program and that it involved "a lot more effort and hassle than I ever expected".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2010/03/joe-buck-live-may-be-over-buck-says-he/|title='' Joe Buck Live'' May Be Over; Buck Says He "Won't Really Miss It"|publisher=Sports Media Watch|date=March 25, 2010|access-date=March 16, 2022}}</ref> HBO subsequently confirmed the show's cancellation to ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/hbo-confirms-joe-buck-live-canceled-36259|title=HBO Confirms 'Joe Buck Live' Canceled|magazine=Broadcasting & Cable|date=March 29, 2010|publisher=NextTV|access-date=March 16, 2022}}</ref>

===ESPN/ABC (2022–present)===
On March 16, 2022, [[ESPN Inc.|ESPN]] announced that it had signed Buck and Aikman to a multi-year deal with the network, which saw them become the new lead broadcast team of ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' beginning in the [[2022 NFL season]], and also work on projects for [[ESPN+]]. The move ended their 20-season tenure as Fox's lead NFL broadcast team.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-16 |title=Joe Buck, Troy Aikman sign multiyear deals with ESPN to be voices of Monday Night Football |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33518376/joe-buck-troy-aikman-sign-multiyear-deals-espn-voices-monday-night-football |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=ESPN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-16 |title=ESPN officially announces multiyear deals for Joe Buck and Troy Aikman |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-officially-announces-multiyear-deals-for-joe-buck-and-troy-aikman.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Awful Announcing}}</ref> As compensation for Buck leaving Fox Sports with one year left on his contract, ESPN sublicensed one of its [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] [[Fox College Football|college football]] games for the [[2022 Big Ten Conference football season|2022 season]] to Fox.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ourland |first=John |date=2022-03-21 |title=Fox gets extra Big Ten game for early Buck exit |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2022/03/21/Insiders/Fox-Big-Ten.aspx |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=Sports Business Journal |language=en}}</ref>

In May 2022, Buck made his on-air debut at ESPN during the [[2022 PGA Championship]], hosting an [[Manningcast|alternate broadcast]] on [[ESPN2]] and ESPN+ produced by [[Peyton Manning|Peyton]] and [[Eli Manning]], featuring ESPN golf analyst Michael Collins and other celebrity guests.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-05 |title=Joe Buck reportedly set for ESPN debut hosting PGA Championship alternate feed |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/golf/joe-buck-reportedly-set-for-espn-debut-hosting-a-pga-championship-alternate.html |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}}</ref>

Buck was offered to fill in for an ESPN-broadcast MLB game as well, but declined, telling a ''Sports Illustrated'' podcast that he was no longer interested in calling baseball, since "I feel like I've done all I could do there. If someday I wanna go back and call a few games—maybe. But I don't have that itch."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Contes |first=Brandon |date=2022-11-18 |title=ESPN asked Joe Buck to call a MLB game this year |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/joe-buck-espn-baseball-itch.html |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Other notable appearances===
In the late 1990s, Buck hosted a weekly sports news show, ''Goin' Deep'', for [[Fox Sports Net]] cable. He also called [[horse racing]] and professional [[bass fishing]] events early in his Fox career, as well as the network's first [[Cotton Bowl Classic]] telecast in [[1999 Cotton Bowl Classic|1999]].

Since 2001, Buck has hosted the "Joe Buck Classic", a celebrity pro-am [[golf tournament]] that is played each May to raise money for [[St. Louis Children's Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stlouischildrens.org/content/JoeBuckClassic/default.htm |title=Joe Buck Classic |access-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228053004/http://www.stlouischildrens.org/content/JoeBuckClassic/default.htm |archive-date=December 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, Buck filmed a pilot episode for a prospective late-night talk and comedy program with former ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' writer and director [[Matt Piedmont]]. Piedmont and Buck wrote and produced the pilot with Piedmont directing, filming in New York City and Los Angeles, and featuring [[Molly Shannon]], [[David Spade]], and [[Paul Rudd]]. Buck co-hosted the program with Abebe Adusmussui, an actual New York City taxi driver.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2007-10-09-hiestand-column_N.htm | title=Fox's Buck makes pitch for late show | first=Michael|last=Hiestand |newspaper=USA Today | date=October 9, 2007|access-date=March 16, 2022}}</ref> The pilot was not picked up as a series, however.

Buck has also appeared in various national television [[commercials]] for such clients as [[Holiday Inn]] and [[Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)|Budweiser]] beer. One of the more memorable spots for the latter had Buck goaded into using the [[catchphrase]], "Slamma-lamma-ding-dong!"  A 2008 commercial for [[National Car Rental]] had him using the catchphrase, "Now that's a good call". Buck has also done local commercials in the St. Louis market for the Suntrup chain of automobile dealerships.

He also contributes occasional opinion pieces to ''[[The Sporting News]]'', and is a key contributor on [[KXFN|KSLG/Team 1380]] on the ''ITD Morning After'' program in St. Louis.

In the week before calling [[Super Bowl XLVIII]], Buck starred in a Web video for ''[[Funny or Die]]'' in which he tries to report on the game from New York City but continues to get interrupted by locals who dislike him.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kmov.com/sports/Must-See-Joe-Bucks-Funny-or-Die-Super-Bowl-fail-242835781.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305122929/http://www.kmov.com/sports/Must-See-Joe-Bucks-Funny-or-Die-Super-Bowl-fail-242835781.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 5, 2014 |title=Must See: Joe Buck's Funny or Die Super Bowl fail |first=Elizabeth |last=Eisele |newspaper=KMOV-TV |date=January 30, 2014 }}</ref>

On February 12, 2013, Buck made a guest appearance during Fox Sports Midwest's broadcast of a [[St. Louis Blues]] hockey game. Alongside their current commentators [[Darren Pang]] and [[John Kelly (sportscaster)|John Kelly]], he discussed his father Jack Buck having [[List of St. Louis Blues broadcasters|called Blues hockey]] along with Kelly's father [[Dan Kelly (sportscaster)|Dan]] in the late 1960s. Buck briefly took over play-by-play from Pang and Kelly, stepping aside when the [[Los Angeles Kings]] inevitably scored a power-play goal on the Blues (joking in response that "I clearly bring no mojo to the party").<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sottile |first=Dave |date=2013-02-12 |title=Fox Sports' Joe Buck gives hockey play-by-play a shot and it isn't pretty |url=https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2013/02/fox_sports_joe_buck_gives_hock.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=pennlive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=VIDEO: Joe Buck crashes Blues broadcast, fails at play-by-play |url=https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/video-joe-buck-crashes-blues-broadcast-fails-at-play-by-play/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=CBSSports.com|date=February 11, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Caesar |first=Dan |title=Joe Buck in the dark on Blues' play-by-play |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/joe-buck-in-the-dark-on-blues-play-by-play/article_39a97ecd-3f0d-5dd5-ae8c-c8ddd4a12867.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=STLtoday.com|date=February 13, 2013 }}</ref>

In 2014, Buck was named as the new host of ''[[NFL Films]] Presents'', to coincide with the program's move from [[ESPN2]] to [[Fox Sports 1]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/fox-sports.html|title=Fox Sports sacrifices NFL Films Presents at the altar of Joe Buck|last=Koo|first=Ben|publisher=Awful Announcing|date=September 3, 2014}}</ref>

From 2015 to 2018, Buck hosted ''Undeniable with Joe Buck'', a sports interview series on [[Audience (TV network)|Audience Network]].

Buck published an autobiography, ''Lucky Bastard'', in 2016.<ref>{{cite book|last=Buck|first=Joe|title=Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV|year=2016|location=New York|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-1-101-98456-7}}</ref>

He has appeared in several television programs as himself, including ''[[Pitch (TV series)|Pitch]]'', ''[[American Dad!]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'', ''[[Conan (talk show)|Conan]]'', ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]]'', and ''[[Brockmire]]''; the film ''[[Fever Pitch]]'' (also starring [[Jimmy Fallon]]); and in the "Carpet Brothers" sketch on ''[[Funny or Die Presents]]'' as The Legit Don Stritt. {{cn|date=July 2022}} Buck's voice is also heard in recorded conversations between [[Linda Tripp]] and [[Monica Lewinsky]] calling Game 5 of the Yankees-Indians ALDS in 1997. The tapes were released at the height of the [[Lewinsky scandal|scandal involving Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mccarver-heard-on-lewinsky-tapes/|title=McCarver Heard On Lewinsky Tapes|work=CBS News|date=November 17, 1998}}</ref>

[[Andrew Marchand]] of the ''[[New York Post]]'' reported on April 17, 2021, that Buck would serve as a guest host on ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' as the game show continues to search for a replacement after the death of longtime host [[Alex Trebek]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/joe-buck-will-take-a-turn-as-jeopardy-guest-host/|title=Joe Buck will take a turn as 'Jeopardy!' guest host|publisher=New York Post|date=April 17, 2021}}</ref> [[Sony Pictures Television]] confirmed four days later that Buck's stint would air from August 9 to 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/levar-burton-robin-roberts-joe-buck-guest-host-jeopardy-1159266/|title=LeVar Burton, Robin Roberts, Joe Buck to Guest Host 'Jeopardy!'|publisher=Rolling Stone|date=April 21, 2021}}</ref>

In 2021, Buck and his family appeared on ABC's ''[[Celebrity Family Feud]]'', competing against the family of actor [[Oliver Hudson]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-30 |title=Joe Buck Goes Rogue on 'Celebrity Family Feud,' Loses the Game for His Team (Video) |url=https://www.thewrap.com/joe-buck-family-feud-wrong-answer/ |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2022, Buck became the announcer on Fox's ''[[Domino Masters]]'' hosted by [[Eric Stonestreet]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dehnart |first1=Andy |title=Domino Masters falls flat and into the same trap as Lego Masters |url=https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2022/03/domino-masters-fox-review/ |website=reality blurred |access-date=March 16, 2022 |date=March 10, 2022}}</ref> Buck also competed in [[The Masked Singer (American TV series) season 7|season seven]] of ''[[The Masked Singer (American TV series)|The Masked Singer]]'' as "Ram" of Team Bad. He was unmasked in the competition's second week at the time when Stonestreet was a guest panelist as he and [[Robin Thicke]] correctly guessed Buck during the final guesses.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Huff |first=Lauren |title=''The Masked Singer''{{'}}s Ram revealed to be Emmy-winning sportscaster after drama-filled duel |url=https://ew.com/tv/the-masked-singer-ram-revealed/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=March 16, 2022 |date=March 16, 2022}}</ref>

On May 24, 2024, Buck was scheduled to call a Cardinals-[[Chicago Cubs|Cubs]] baseball game on [[Bally Sports Midwest]] alongside his close friend [[Chip Caray]]. It would have marked the first time Buck had called a baseball game since the [[2021 World Series]]. However, the game was rained out.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Denton|first=John|title=Buck, Caray to reunite for legendary broadcast |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-buck-to-call-cardinals-vs-cubs-game-with-chip-caray |magazine=MLB |access-date=May 25, 2024 |date=May 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Baer|first=Jack|title=Joe Buck's return to MLB broadcasting gets rained out in Cubs-Cardinals |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/joe-bucks-return-to-mlb-broadcasting-gets-rained-out-in-cubs-cardinals-050116542.html |magazine=Yahoo! Sportd|access-date=May 26, 2024 |date=May 26, 2024}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
*Eight-time [[Sports Emmy Award]] winner
**Seven for [[Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play|Play-by-Play]]
**One for [[Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host|Studio Host]]<ref name="NFL 2020"/>
*Three-time [[National Sports Media Association#National Sportscaster of the Year|NSMA National Sportscaster of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Fox Sports' Joe Buck to call major sports event every day this week | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2020/10/19/joe-buck-call-world-series-nfl-games-fox-sports/3708543001/ | date=October 19, 2020 | work=USA Today}}</ref>
*2020 [[Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award]] from the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (Joe's father Jack Buck won the award in 1996, making him and Joe the first father-son duo to earn the distinction).<ref name="NFL 2020">{{cite web | url=https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-buck-named-2020-pete-rozelle-radio-television-award-winner | title=Joe Buck named 2020 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award winner | author=National Football League | website=NFL.com | date=September 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Fox Broadcaster Joe Buck Surprised During Thursday Night Football With Hall Of Fame Induction Announcement | url=https://deadline.com/2020/09/fox-broadcaster-joe-buck-pro-football-hall-of-fame-induction-1234579391/|date=September 17, 2020|website=Deadline}}</ref>
[[File:Joe Buck.jpg|thumb|right|Buck in 2006]]
*NSMA Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2024)<ref name="NSMA 23">{{cite web |title=NSMA ELECTS BUCK, KREMER, STARK, McCARVER, KAHN ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME; HARLAN, PASSAN WIN NATIONAL AWARDS |url=https://nationalsportsmedia.org/news/nsma-elects-buck-kremer-stark-mccarver-kahn-elected-to-hall-of-fame-harlan-passan-win-national-awards#:~:text=Kevin%20Harlan%20of%20CBS%2C%20Westwood,third%20National%20win%2C%20Passan's%20second. |website=National Sports Media.org |publisher=NSMA |access-date=January 9, 2024}}</ref>

== Criticism and controversies ==
Buck is generally regarded as "one of the most heavily criticized" announcers in sports,<ref name="LarryBrown20150630"/> with various fans complaining that he is biased on his calls towards or against particular teams.<ref name="LarryBrown20150630"/><ref name="TorontoStar20151016">{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2015/10/16/joe-buck-cant-win-with-either-jays-or-royals-fans-mudhar.html|title=Joe Buck can't win, with either Jays or Royals fans: Mudhar|first=Raju|last=Mudhar|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=October 16, 2015}}</ref><ref name="SFGate20121023">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Fox-announcer-Buck-says-he-isn-t-biased-3972581.php|title=Fox announcer Buck says he isn't biased|first=Al|last=Saracevic|website=sfgate.com|date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> Buck attributes this to the fact that most fan bases, especially Major League Baseball fans, are used to hearing local announcers and not those working national broadcasts:<ref name="TorontoStar20151016"/> "Fans are used to hearing their hometown guys. When you come at it objectively, people aren't used to it."<ref name="SFGate20121023"/>

Reporting from the field following the game in which [[Mark McGwire]] [[1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase|broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record]] in 1998, Buck began his postgame interview on Fox by requesting (and getting) a hug from McGwire, which led to criticisms of Buck's on-air professionalism from some sources.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fox's Buck embraced the moment in the wrong way|last=Wolfley|first=Bob|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=September 11, 1998}}</ref>

In January 2005, Buck drew fire (attracting angry criticism) for his on-air comments during [[NFL playoffs, 2004-05|an NFL playoff game]] between the [[2004 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]] and [[2004 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]]. After Vikings wide receiver [[Randy Moss]] simulated [[mooning]] the Green Bay crowd in the end zone, Buck called it a "disgusting act". The moon was a response to Packers fans, who traditionally moon the Vikings players aboard the team bus, which Buck did not know about, and therefore did not mention.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050113/ai_n11009143%20packers%20fans%20moon | title=A Lambeau tradition? Depends whom you ask | first=Bob|last=Wolfley | newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | date=January 13, 2005}}{{dead link|date=November 2016}}</ref> Buck's comment also indicated that he incorrectly believed that Moss had mooned the fans.  It prompted [[Red McCombs]], then the owner of the [[Minnesota Vikings]], to request that Buck be removed from covering their upcoming playoff game, saying that Buck's comments "suggested a prejudice that surpassed objective reporting."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs04/news/story?id=1965529|title=Fox denies Vikings request to pull Buck from booth|date=January 12, 2005|website=ESPN.com}}</ref>  Buck also received criticism from other members of the media who felt he "over-reacted" and was being "inconsistent" given his network's history of programming.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/050113|title=Commentators need to chill|website=ESPN}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/josh_elliott/01/13/daily.blog/ | magazine=Sports Illustrated|first=Josh|last=Elliott |title=Disgusting? Not this time
 | date=January 13, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305232836/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/josh_elliott/01/13/daily.blog/|archive-date=March 5, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.galvnews.com/sports/article_36095665-ddea-5ce1-9355-5d5b787393f5.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220317040327/https://www.galvnews.com/sports/article_36095665-ddea-5ce1-9355-5d5b787393f5.html|archive-date=March 17, 2022|title=Moss' moon pales in comparison to Fox|date=January 15, 2005 |access-date=March 17, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/michael_silver/01/14/moss.reaction/ | magazine=Sports Illustrated| title=Hypocrisy strikes again
 | date=January 14, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104105258/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/michael_silver/01/14/moss.reaction/|archive-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref> Buck was much more restrained in his call of the [[New York Jets]]' [[Isaiah Crowell]] using the football to simulate cleaning himself after defecation during a 2018 ''Thursday Night Football'' contest against the [[Cleveland Browns]]. "That will draw a flag every time," Buck simply commented.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.startribune.com/disgusting-act-crowell-td-doesnt-draw-bucks-ire-like-moss-did/493954221/ | work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune | title=Disgusting act? Crowell TD doesn't draw Joe Buck's ire as Moss did | date=September 21, 2018}}</ref>

In 2007, Buck was scheduled to call only eight regular-season MLB games out of a 26-game schedule for Fox (along with a handful of regional [[2007 St. Louis Cardinals season|Cardinals]] telecasts on FSN Midwest).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2007/08/joe-buck-is-new-al-michaels/|title=Is Buck the new Michaels?|first=Paul|last=Sen|website=Sports Media Watch|date=August 14, 2007|access-date=March 17, 2022}}</ref> In an interview with [[Richard Sandomir]] of the ''[[New York Times]]'', he defended his reduced baseball commitment:<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/sports/baseball/14sandomir.html|title=The Voice You Don't Hear on Fox Belongs to Joe Buck|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 14, 2007}}</ref> {{blockquote|text=If you or the casual fan doesn't want to consider me the No. 1 baseball announcer at Fox, it's not my concern ... I don't know why it would matter. I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation ... He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom. Because my career has gone the way it's gone, I don't have to go wall to wall. ...While I'm deathly afraid of overexposure, I'm more afraid of underexposure at home with my wife and girls.}}

In 2008, Buck drew criticism for comments he made during an appearance on [[ESPN Radio]]'s ''[[The Herd with Colin Cowherd]]'', in which he admitted to spending "barely any" time following sporting events he doesn't broadcast and facetiously claimed that he preferred watching ''[[The Bachelorette (American TV series)|The Bachelorette]]'' instead.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/sports/baseball/04sandomir.html|title=Joe Buck Makes Some Waves by Channel Surfing|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|work=The New York Times|date=July 4, 2008}}</ref>

In June 2015, Buck announced he had quit his Twitter account. Buck explained that he quit Twitter because he found himself engaging negative people and allowing criticism to affect how he was doing his job.<ref name="LarryBrown20150630">{{cite web | url=http://larrybrownsports.com/media/joe-buck-explains-why-he-quit-twitter/265812 | title=Joe Buck explains why he quit Twitter | date=June 30, 2015 | first=Steve | last=DelVecchio | website=larrybrownsports.com | access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref> He would return to Twitter four months later to engage in friendly banter with a [[2015 Kansas City Royals season|Kansas City Royals]] fan who started a petition to have him removed from the Fox broadcast team for the Royals' appearance in the [[2015 American League Championship Series|2015 ALCS]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article39367086.html|title=Joe Buck has fun interaction with Royals fan who started petition to ban him from ALCS|last=Grathoff|first=Pete|work=The Kansas City Star|date=October 15, 2015}}</ref>

Also in June 2015, Buck and co-announcer Greg Norman were criticized for their "mistake-filled, error-prone mess" in covering the [[2015 U.S. Open (golf)|2015 U.S. Open]] in golf.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/06/fox-us-open-coverage-review-horrible-mistakes-joe-buck-greg-norman-golf|title=The 19 worst things about Fox's U.S. Open coverage|date=June 22, 2015}}</ref> In particular, they were questioned for prematurely anointing [[Dustin Johnson]] as the winner "at the start of a back nine".

Before a 2020 NFL broadcast between the [[2020 Green Bay Packers season|Packers]] and [[2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season|Buccaneers]] in [[Tampa]], Buck and his partner [[Troy Aikman]] were caught on a [[hot mic]] questioning the necessity of a [[Flypast|military flyover]] when only 15,000 fans were allowed in [[Raymond James Stadium]] for the game. "That's your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work," Buck commented. An Armed Forces spokesperson later said there is no additional cost to conduct the flyovers. Meanwhile, Buck and Aikman faced accusations of being unpatriotic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/us/troy-aikman-joe-buck-flyover-trnd/index.html|title=Broadcasters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman caught on hot mic appearing to mock military flyovers as wasteful|website=[[CNN]]|date=October 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/foxs-troy-aikman-backtracks-after-hotmic-criticism-of-nfl-anthem-flyover-234348159.html|title=Fox's Troy Aikman backtracks after hot-mic criticism of NFL anthem flyover|date=October 20, 2020}}</ref> Joe Buck said the comments were taken out of context and were sarcasm not meant for broadcast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/joe-buck-flyover-troy-aikman-fox/1x4gm0sju7pmvzuewad7fe1n6|title=Joe Buck says flyover clip misrepresents what was going on in booth with him and Troy Aikman|date=August 12, 2021 }}</ref>

On January 2, 2023, Buck served as the announcer for a ''Monday Night Football'' game between the [[2022 Buffalo Bills season|Buffalo Bills]] and [[2022 Cincinnati Bengals season|Cincinnati Bengals]] in which Bills safety [[Damar Hamlin]] suffered sudden [[cardiac arrest]]. Buck claimed four times on the broadcast that despite the life-threatening injury, he had been told the league was adamant to resume play within minutes. The NFL's executive vice president of football operations [[Troy Vincent]] denied the claims, saying those plans were never relayed to Buck and called his comments "insensitive".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediaite.com/sports/watch-espns-joe-buck-repeatedly-said-the-nfl-gave-the-bills-and-bengals-5-minutes-to-resume-play-contrary-to-leagues-claim/|title=WATCH: ESPN's Joe Buck Repeatedly Said the NFL Gave the Bills and Bengals 5 Minutes to Resume Play, Contrary to League's Claim|last=Kane|first=Luke|website=Mediaite.com|date=January 3, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2023|language=en}}</ref> The following day, Buck responded to the NFL and Vincent, and stood by the claim that he was told both teams had five minutes to warm-up before resuming the game.<ref>[https://nesn.com/2023/01/joe-buck-espn-reiterate-stance-on-since-denied-damar-hamlin-report/ Joe Buck, ESPN Reiterate Stance On Since-Denied Damar Hamlin Report] [[NESN]]</ref> A similar report regarding the players warming-up to resume play was aired on [[Westwood One]].<ref>[https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/demar-hamlin-update-bills-cardiac-arrest Damar Hamlin update: Here's everything that's been reported on the Bills safety after collapse on the field] [[USA Today|For the Win]]</ref>

=== Vocal cord ailment ===
In 2011, shortly after broadcasting [[Super Bowl XLV]] for Fox, Buck claimed to have developed a virus on the nerves of his left vocal fold. Despite the ailment, which according to Buck "came out of the blue" and hampered his ability to raise his voice, he continued to broadcast baseball for Fox during the 2011 season and resumed as Fox's lead NFL announcer that fall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/buck-despite-voice-issue-to-call-cards-game/article_9050dc96-3ab4-5332-9dc7-02bcc16004ac.html|title=Buck, despite voice issue, to call Cards game|last=Caesar|first=Dan|publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|access-date=March 17, 2022|date=April 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/2011-articles/its-time-for-fox-to-sit-joe-buck-for-mlb-coverage.html|title=It's Time For Fox To Sit Joe Buck For MLB Coverage|last=Yoder|first=Matt|publisher=Awful Announcing|date=June 20, 2011|access-date=March 17, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2011-07-10-joe-buck-vocal-cord-injury_n.htm|title=Fox announcer Joe Buck regains voice, gains perspective|last=McCarthy|first=Michael|work=USA Today|date=July 10, 2011|access-date=March 17, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/sports/for-joe-buck-of-fox-sports-sotto-voce.html|title=For Joe Buck of Fox Sports, Sotto Voce|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|work=The New York Times|date=August 27, 2011}}</ref>

In 2016, Buck revealed that the problem was not due to a virus, but rather to vocal cord paralysis likely caused by [[anesthesia]] used during multiple [[hair transplantation]] procedures.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Casselberry|first1=Ian|title=Joe Buck admits that frequent hair plug treatments caused vocal cord issues|url=http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/joe-buck-admits-that-frequent-hair-plug-treatments-caused-vocal-cord-issues.html|website=Awful Announcing|date=October 6, 2016|access-date=October 7, 2016}}</ref>

==Personal life==
From 1993 to 2011, Buck was married to Ann Archambault, with whom he has two daughters. He married [[NFL Network]] and now [[ESPN]] reporter and former [[Denver Broncos|Bronco]] cheerleader [[Michelle Beisner]] on April 12, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/joe-buck-marries-michelle-beisner/|title=Sportscaster Joe Buck Marries Reporter Michelle Beisner|website=People}}</ref> They have twin sons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/joe-buck-and-michelle-beisner-welcome-twin-boys-pics/|title=Joe Buck and Michelle Beisner Welcome Twin Boys: Pics|date=April 26, 2018|website=Us Weekly}}</ref> The couple reside in [[Ladue, Missouri]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kirn |first1=Jacob |title=Joe Buck buys Ladue home for $4.5M |url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/business-journal/joe-buck-buys-ladue-home/63-fc03e18b-485e-44ea-9b8c-94d8d98a97a5 |work=[[KSDK]] |date=September 22, 2020}}</ref>

Buck is a fan and season ticket holder of the NHL's St. Louis Blues.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-28 |title=Buck excited by Blues' run to Stanley Cup Final {{!}} NHL.com |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/joe-buck-excited-by-st-louis-blues-run-to-stanley-cup-final-307538436 |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=www.nhl.com |language=en}}</ref> He revealed in a tweet in 2023 that he was a [[Houston Oilers]] fan growing up,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thespun.com/nfl/houston-fans-react-to-joe-bucks-favorite-team-admission |title=Fans Are Surprised By Joe Buck's Favorite Team Admission |author=Andrew Gould |date=4 June 2023 |website=thespun.com |access-date=2 October 2023}}</ref> and he supports [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in baseball.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/column/winning-stl/winning-stl-is-joe-buck-a-fan-you-better-believe-it/video_1ad03d85-c9e5-5078-9037-c94e50794943.html |title=Winning STL: Is Joe Buck a fan? You better believe it. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 June 2023 |publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |access-date=2 October 2023}}</ref>

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