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FOX NFL Sunday announces new host
FoxSports ^ | 8-14-06 | wire

Posted on 08/14/2006 11:05:26 AM PDT by Dysart

It will still be JB, Terry, Howie and Jimmy on NFL on FOX Sunday this fall. But plenty will change as the network's pregame show will sport a whole new look.

Joe Buck, a six-time Emmy Award winner, has been named as new host for the FOX NFL Sunday pregame show and postgame show The OT on doubleheader weekends.

It marks the first time in sports television history that a broadcaster will host an NFL pregame show while simultaneously handling play-by-play duties.

The announcement was made Monday by David Hill, chairman of the FOX Sports television group and executive producer for FOX Sports.

Buck joins Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Pam Oliver, insider Jay Glazer and comedian Frank Caliendo this season, beginning with the 2006 premiere on Sunday, September 10 at noon ET.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.foxsports.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: foxsports; host; joebuck; nfl
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To: NCC-1701

We're doomed!

21 posted on 08/14/2006 11:57:52 AM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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To: JRios1968

I love that grapic. It has sooooooooo many uses.


22 posted on 08/14/2006 11:59:51 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: NCC-1701

RoscoeKarns did a great service to FR with the "Behind the Scenes of a Zot" thread...


23 posted on 08/14/2006 12:03:30 PM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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To: Dysart

I surely hope SeeBS makes some booth changes.


24 posted on 08/14/2006 12:05:55 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Tom Gallagher - the anti-Crist [FL Governor, 2006 primary])
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To: JRios1968; NCC-1701; Roscoe Karns

Of course, I should ping RK if I mention him...


25 posted on 08/14/2006 12:10:49 PM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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To: Dysart

Has James Brown been canned?


26 posted on 08/14/2006 12:26:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Dysart

I think it is time for Al Michaels and John Madden to hang it up. I cannot listen to either of them anymore.


27 posted on 08/14/2006 12:28:53 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

No. He's going over to seeBS.


28 posted on 08/14/2006 12:30:38 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: Dysart

"Slamma-Lamma-Ding-Dong!"


29 posted on 08/14/2006 12:31:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dysart

Also I'm glad to see Curt Menefee get a nice promotion, he was good when he was here in Dallas.


30 posted on 08/14/2006 12:33:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Perdogg

JB got lured away by CBS, which might possibly make their pre-game show worth watching, though probably not.


31 posted on 08/14/2006 12:34:44 PM PDT by discostu (you must be joking son, where did you get those shoes)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, Menefee is very smooth and seems like a nice guy. He's perfect for this new role. Sure has come a long way from the little Ticket and channel 4, IIRC.


32 posted on 08/14/2006 12:41:35 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

This is the ONLY time I prefer CBS coverage to Fox.....Football


33 posted on 08/14/2006 1:14:29 PM PDT by xpertskir (Shave the Whales)
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To: Dysart

Psst...I can't stand Buck.


34 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:47 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
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To: Dysart

So is it Fox thinks he's so great at both jobs they wanted him to both OR is it because they couldn't find anyone they liked to do either job?


35 posted on 08/14/2006 2:16:44 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dysart
Oh no, not this dork. I'm so sick of him broadcasting the playoffs and World Series. Thom Brenneman is a 100 times better broadcaster than Buck, yet we get stuck with him every OCT, opining about the "great Yankees" and the "mystique" of Yankee stadium.
36 posted on 08/14/2006 2:23:08 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: Dysart
Between the Sunday papers I take which cover Southeastern Conference and ACC College football in "depth" and all other college footbal better than the local rags in the other regions and NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV, I have not watched a pre-game, half-time, sideline report or commercial in five years.

The shows have obviously passed me by as I can not figure out what in the world is so damned funny that everybody on the set of every studio show is always yukking it up like 8th grade boys that are all sitting on whoopee cushions.

37 posted on 08/14/2006 2:29:03 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: mainepatsfan
...they couldn't find anyone they liked to do either job?

That's my supposition. He's the best guy they could install; despite the fact that apparently many people here aren't wild him, he's generally well-respected. I don't have strong feelings either way about him. I do think Menefee is very good, and maybe they will move him in there full time, eventually.

38 posted on 08/14/2006 2:30:10 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: N. Theknow
I have become the fastest mute-button-pusher-in-the-south. No commercial noise, sideline reporterettes' babbling, or feature stories ever make it to my ears.
39 posted on 08/14/2006 2:35:25 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

I'm just surprised they couldn't find one adequate person to take one of those two jobs.


40 posted on 08/14/2006 2:36:02 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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