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{{For|the fictional character|Midnight Cowboy}} {{for|the rockabilly musician|Joe Buck (musician)}}
{{Infobox Person
| name = Joe Buck
| image = Joe Buck.jpg
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| caption = Buck on the field at ]in St. Louis, Mo.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|4|25}}
| birth_place = ]
| education = ] in ], ]
| occupation = ]
| spouse = Ann Archambault
| parents = ] and Carole Lintzenich
| children = Natalie and Trudy
}}
'''Joseph Francis Buck''' (born ], ]) is an ] ] and the son of the late ] sportscaster ]. He has won numerous ] for his ] work with ] ].

==Biography==
=== Education ===
Buck was born in ] (located where the ], for whom his father broadcast, then conducted their ]) and raised in ]. After graduating from ], Buck began his broadcasting career in 1989, while he was an undergraduate at ]. When Buck graduated from Indiana two years later, he received a ] in ] and a minor in ]. Buck was also a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity Beta Eta Chapter.

===Career===
====Before FOX====
Buck called play-by-play for the then-], a ] affiliate of the Cardinals, and was a reporter for ]'s coverage of the ]. In 1991, Buck did reporting for St Louis' CBS affiliate ]. Also, in ] Joe followed in his father's footsteps by broadcasting for the Cardinals on local television and ] Radio, filling in while his father was working on ] telecasts. In the 1992-93 season he was the color commentator for ] basketball broadcasts.

Buck continued to call Cardinals games after being hired by FOX, initially with his father on KMOX and later on ] television. As his network duties increased, however, Buck's local workload shrunk, and prior to the ] season it was announced that Buck would no longer be calling Cardinals telecasts for FSN Midwest. This would mark the first time since ] that a member of the Buck family would not be part of the team's broadcasting crew. <ref>{{citeweb| url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/8CFCC3972CF335E28625740200190400?OpenDocument | title=Run of Bucks broadcasting Cardinals comes to an end | author=Dan Caesar |publisher=''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' | date=2008-03-04}}</ref>

====Hiring at FOX====
In ] Buck was hired by FOX, and at the age of 25 became the youngest man ever to announce a regular slate of ] games on network television.

====''Major League Baseball on FOX''====
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In {{by|1996}} he was named FOX's lead play-by-play voice for ], teaming with ], who had previously worked with Joe's 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 the participating teams) for a ], surpassing ], who called the ] for ] at the age of 30. McDonough had replaced Jack Buck as CBS' lead baseball play-by-play man after the elder Buck was fired in late {{by|1991}}.
On ], {{by|1998}} Joe Buck called ]'s 62nd ] that broke ]' single-season record. The game was nationally televised live in ] on FOX. It was a rarity for a nationally televised regular season game to not be aired on ] since the end of the '']'' era on ] in {{by|1989}}.

During FOX's broadcast of the ], Joe Buck paid implicit tribute to his father, who had died only 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 ]'s home run off ] ] ] which ended Game 6 of the ]. Since then he has continued to use this phrase at appropriate times.
His low-key statement "''St. Louis has a World Series winner''," at the close of the ], echoed a long-time catchphrase of Jack Buck's, at the close of any Cardinals victory: "''And that's a winner''!"

====''NFL on FOX''====
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Buck became Fox Sports' lead ] ] man in ] (taking over for ]), teaming with ] and ] as ]s and ] as the ]. Buck is only the third announcer to handle a television network's lead MLB and NFL coverage in the same year (following ]'s ] and ]'s ]). By {{by|2002}}, Buck's FOX duties forced him to cut his local Cardinal schedule to 25 games. Whenever Joe Buck has been on a postseason Major League Baseball assignment, ] (and ] beginning in ]), who coincidentally was the back-up announcer behind Jack Buck for CBS' baseball telecasts in the early 1990s, would fill-in for him.
On ], ], Buck called his first ], as the ] defeated the ] for their third championship in four years. His father called 17 Super Bowls for CBS television and radio in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Cris Collinsworth left for ] in ]. Buck, Aikman, and Oliver continue to serve as the lead '']'' broadcast crew.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2005-07-13-hiestand-collinsworth_x.htm | title=Collinsworth's move could boost Aikman | author=Michael Hiestand | publisher=''USA Today'' | date=2005-07-13}}</ref>

=====''FOX NFL Sunday''=====
On ], ], Buck was named the host of FOX's pregame NFL show, '']'' and postgame doubleheader show. According to the ] system, viewership was down for the entire season.{{Fact|date=September 2008}} FOX announced in March 2007 that Buck would no longer host ''FOX NFL Sunday'' in ], concentrating on play-by-play for the week's marquee game. <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070329fox03 | title=Fox NFL Sunday & the OT return to Los Angeles home in September | author=FOX Press Release | publisher=''The Futon Critic'' | date=2007-03-29}}</ref>

====Career timeline====
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*1991&ndash;2007: ] Play-by-Play<ref name="ISBB">{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalspeakers.com/speakers/Celebrity_Speaker/ISBB-6P8TWF/Joe_Buck/|title=Joe Buck speaks for International Speakers Bureau|accessdate=2008-07-15|date=2008-07-15|}}</ref>
*1992&ndash;1993: ] basketball color commentator
*1994&ndash;1997: ] Regional Play-by-Play<ref name="ISBB" />
*1996&ndash;present: ] Lead Play-by-Play<ref name="ISBB" />
*2002&ndash;present: ] Lead Play-by-Play<ref name="ISBB" />
*2006: ] Host
*2008: MLB Playoffs on Fox: Lead Play-by-Play

===Other notable appearances===
In the late 1990s, Buck hosted a weekly sports-news show, '']'', for ] cable. He also called ] and professional ] events early in his FOX career, as well as the network's first ] telecast in ].

Part of Buck's broadcast (with McCarver and ]) of Game 5 of the ] could be heard in the background of one of the recordings ] made of a conversation between herself and ], regarding the latter's affair with then-] ].

Buck once guest-hosted an episode of the ] network's '']'' program.

Since 2001, Buck has hosted the "Joe Buck Classic", a celebrity pro-am ] that is played each May to raise money for ].

On a Season 3 episode of '']'', ] shows ] a clip of the last play of the ], and Buck can be heard speaking his famous line, {{cquote|Red Sox fans have longed to hear it: the Boston Red Sox are world champions!}}

Buck has appeared numerous times on '']'' as a guest. During an appearance prior to the ], Buck was handed a garish necktie that had previously been worn by O'Brien and bandleader ] and agreed to wear it for Game 1, a promise that he honored. On an appearance prior to the ], Buck explained to O'Brien that sometimes his friends ] him during games and dare him to work words or phrases into the broadcast. O'Brien asked him to say "]" during a World Series broadcast, and if he did, he would donate $1,000 to a charity of Buck's choice. During the third inning of Game 1, Buck duly obliged: ''"Our own little Jub Jub, ], playing the role of weather person..."''

In 2007 Buck filmed a pilot episode for a prospective late-night talk and comedy program with former '']'' writer and director ]. Piedmont and Buck wrote and produced the pilot with Piedmont directing, filming in New York City and Los Angeles and featuring ], ] and ]. Buck is the host of the show with Abebe Adusmussui, an actual New York City taxi driver, as his co-host. The pilot is currently in consideration for a series on Fox.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2007-10-09-hiestand-column_N.htm | title=Fox's Buck makes pitch for late show | author=Michael Hiestand | publisher=''USA Today'' | date=2007-10-09}}</ref>
Buck has also appeared in various national television ] for such clients as ] and ] beer. One of the more memorable spots for the latter had Buck goaded into using the ], ''Slamma-lamma-ding-dong!'' (He also does local commercials in the St. Louis market for the ] chain of automobile dealerships.)

Buck also contributes occasional opinion pieces to '']''. Joe is also a key contributor on ] on the ''ITD Morning After'' program in St. Louis.

Buck was the commencement speaker at ]'s 2008 commencement ceremony. His late father, Jack Buck, delivered SLU's commencement address in 1995.

=== Controversy ===
During the ], Joe Buck was introduced to single season home run record holder ]:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bobandtom.com/gen3/ed_pages/ed_page101802.htm | title=The Buck stops here Thursday morning | publisher=''Bob & Tom Show'' | date=2002-10-17}}</ref>
{{cquote|I met Barry Bonds the other day, and when I was introduced as Joe Buck, lead broadcaster for FOX, Barry Bonds turns to me and says 'So?' We'll see how professional I am when Mr. Bonds steps up to the plate. If I don't throw a 'so' into my announcing, I don't think I will be doing my job.}}

In January 2005, Buck drew fire from ], then the owner of the ], for his on-air comments during ] between the ] and ]. After Vikings wide receiver ] simulated mooning the Green Bay crowd in the end zone, Buck called it a ''"disgusting act."'' The moon was allegedly an attempt to respond to Packer fans, who traditionally moon the Vikings players aboard the team bus, which Buck did not mention.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050113/ai_n11009143%20packers%20fans%20moon | title=A Lambeau tradition? Depends whom you ask | author=Bob Wolfley | publisher=''The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' | date=2005-01-13}}</ref>

In ], Buck was only scheduled to call eight regular season MLB games out of a 26-game schedule for FOX (along with a handful of regional Cardinals telecasts on FSN Midwest). In an interview with Richard Sandomir of the '']'', Buck defended his reduced baseball commitment:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/2007/08/joe-buck-is-new-al-michaels.html | title=Is Buck the new Michaels? | author=Paul Sen | publisher=''sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com'' | date=2007-08-14}}</ref> {{cquote|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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/sports/baseball/14sandomir.html | title=The voice you don’t hear on Fox belongs to Joe Buck | author=Richard Sandomir | publisher=''The New York Times'' | date=2007-08-14}}</ref>}}

On July 2, 2008, while speaking with ] on ], Buck said that he is tired of baseball and doesn't enjoy calling the games like he used to. <ref>{{cite web | url=http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/07/joe-buck-admits-he-rarely-watches.html | title=Joe Buck Admits He Rarely Watches Sports And Doesn't Enjoy Baseball Anymore | author=Awful Announcing | date=2008-07-02}}</ref> Two days later, Buck stated that he'd been "joking" to Cowherd but added that he still believes the games take too long to play.

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