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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: GianniV

McCarver is equally irritating.

"You see Joe it's always good for a pitcher to get ahead in the count."


41 posted on 08/14/2006 2:37:29 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dysart

So is Fox too cheap to hire another studio host is their ad revenue down? FWIW, I can't stand *any* of these pre-games shows with their know-nothing sideline reporters and their screaming pimps.

The old ESPN Monday Night Matchup crew was tolerable but mostly for the "jacked up" highlights.


42 posted on 08/14/2006 2:49:14 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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To: Dysart
But what about Weatherchick Jillian Barberie???

Inquiring minds want to know.

43 posted on 08/14/2006 2:58:16 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Dysart

Fox can do whatever they want, but I don't think Joe Buck knows that much about football!

44 posted on 08/14/2006 3:03:44 PM PDT by TravisBickle (Are you talkin' to me?)
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To: martin_fierro
Hey, I said I don't listen.
45 posted on 08/14/2006 3:08:59 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart; scott says; mainepatsfan; GOP_Raider; Ultra Sonic 007

James Brown was the glue that kept that show on track.

Now you have a nut (Bradshaw) along with an ego-maniac (Jimmy JOhnson) next to Howie who plays a great straight man and this just sounds like a trainwreck waiting to happen.

Notice how they are now going to emulate the College Gameday pregame show from ESPN with Kirk Lee and Chris....


46 posted on 08/14/2006 3:27:25 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - I BEEEEEEELLLLLLIIEEEEVVVEEEEEEE in the conspiracy of the flying knee....)
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To: GianniV
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...

I think you have actually pinpointed one of the prime causes for some people's distaste for this move: He's overexposed, and that tends to breed contempt for public figures.

I just haven't heard any viable alternatives in the media, or even here.

47 posted on 08/14/2006 3:36:49 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: JRios1968

My ears are burning. :)


48 posted on 08/14/2006 3:51:01 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Dysart

Cool. Honestly, neither my husband or I thought TB could handle it.


49 posted on 08/14/2006 4:10:43 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: MikefromOhio
Notice how they are now going to emulate the College Gameday pregame show from ESPN with Kirk Lee and Chris....

I don't know if that would work too well with the NFL. I was at the Utah/BYU College Gameday airing in 2004 (I think it was only the third time College Gameday had gone west of the Mississippi), and it's a total blast, but I have my doubts about it with the NFL and FOX.

That, and I don't think you'll see a random wierdo on FOX NFL Sunday flying a Washington State Cougar flag. If you've seen ESPN's College Gameday, you've probably seen a Wazzu flag during every airing.

50 posted on 08/14/2006 4:15:54 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Would you like to join the OFFICIAL Oakland Raiders ping list? Sure you would, send me freepmail.)
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To: GOP_Raider

I've been to a few of them when they come into Columbus :)

Never saw a WAZZU flag except for when Ohio State was playing WAZZU.

Plenty of Michigan and Penn State flags though. I didn't make to the Texas gameday show last year in Columbus, but I did notice a few Texas flags then.


51 posted on 08/14/2006 4:26:58 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - I BEEEEEEELLLLLLIIEEEEVVVEEEEEEE in the conspiracy of the flying knee....)
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To: GOP_Raider

I've been to a few of them when they come into Columbus :)

Never saw a WAZZU flag except for when Ohio State was playing WAZZU.

Plenty of Michigan and Penn State flags though. I didn't make to the Texas gameday show last year in Columbus, but I did notice a few Texas flags then.


52 posted on 08/14/2006 4:27:08 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - I BEEEEEEELLLLLLIIEEEEVVVEEEEEEE in the conspiracy of the flying knee....)
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To: MikefromOhio
It's supposedly in an effort to get Gameday to come to Pullman. Here is how it began. And I thought I was crazy...
53 posted on 08/14/2006 4:33:21 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Would you like to join the OFFICIAL Oakland Raiders ping list? Sure you would, send me freepmail.)
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To: GOP_Raider

Yep I've heard about it...

It's very possible that I just missed the guy waving it.....


54 posted on 08/14/2006 4:51:25 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - I BEEEEEEELLLLLLIIEEEEVVVEEEEEEE in the conspiracy of the flying knee....)
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To: Dysart

Joe Buck is the very definition of a metrosexual. Can the guy even throw a baseball?


55 posted on 08/14/2006 5:48:32 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: Dysart
Joe Buck will take over as host from James Brown.


We're doomed...

56 posted on 08/14/2006 8:20:28 PM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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To: JRios1968

Being prepared is the key thing here...

57 posted on 08/14/2006 8:45:19 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

58 posted on 08/14/2006 8:51:10 PM PDT by JRios1968 (This kid knows how to wallop a baseball!!!!!!)
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