“My dad worked so hard. He slept in his own bed maybe half the nights of the year because of road assignments, but even when he was home, he was covering games. It put a lot of pressure on my mom. She brought in her parents to help out, and it took a village to raise us. I was lucky.”

American sportscaster and actor

Joe Buck is an American sportscaster and actor. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football on ESPN and ABC, and he hosts ESPN Jeopardy! on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. Buck worked for Fox Sports from its launch in 1994 until 2022. During that time, he became the network’s lead play-by-play voice for National Football League and Major League Baseball coverage, a role that made him a familiar presence in American sports broadcasting.