If you watch TV, there's a good chance
you know our next guest's voice.
He's Fox Sports lead play-by-play announcer
for both Major League baseball and the NFL.
Please welcome Joe Buck.
Hi, Joe.
Hey.
Hey, hey.
So this is the first time on the show,
but I feel like I know you, because I watch you
all the time when I'm watching football.
And I know your voice.
You announce all the games, for years and years.
You've been a sportscaster--
broadcaster for a long time.
Yeah, probably since before I was even aware
that I was sports broadcasting.
I'd say it's a good old fashioned tale of nepotism.
My dad broadcast for the Cardinals,
and did Monday Night Football on CBS Radio.
He did the Cardinals for 50 years.
So I grew up in this business.
I was around it as a little kid.
I always wanted to be around my dad when he was going to work,
for obvious reasons.
And that's me with a lot more hair.
And that's him when he was still with us.
And I just wanted to do what he did,
because I saw how happy it made him.
And so naturally, I just followed him into the business.
Well, and you got to do--
I mean, not too many people say, I want to do what my dad did,
or whatever your dream is.
But you got to do it.
And you've been doing it for 25 years on Fox.
What's the difference now with COVID?
How is that different for you?
It's been different.
I mean, it's been different for everybody.
I'm just so thankful that we got to this point in the season.
We're two games away.
And the two championship games, and then a Super
Bowl away from finishing the season.
Which I don't think the odds were very good,
back when the season started, we'd even get to this point.
But to do the games without crowds
makes it a little bit more difficult for me.
I like to use the crowd to my advantage.
And if something's going crazy, then I just lay out.
I let the crowd carry it.
If the crowd's reacting because they don't like a call,
I shut up so that the crowd can tell people at home
what's going on in the stadium.
It's different.
But we have the fake crowd noise.
It's in our headset.
And there's fake crowd noise going to your TV at home.
And it just proves to me how dumb I am.
Because if I listen to a full crowd in my headset,
it almost tricks my eyes and my feel, to make
me believe that I'm sitting in a full stadium.
It's kind of weird.
Well, it's weird too, watching at home.
Because we know that it's not a full stadium,
and we're falling for it too.
All the boos and everything that they're adding in.
So this past weekend, I watched you and Troy call the game.
And it was Saints and Tampa Bay.
And it's probably Drew's last game.
And when you know that-- is it difficult
when you're calling a game like that, when you know
this is probably his last game?
Yeah, because you want to give somebody
that's been that great--
I think both as a person and as a player.
He's got just about every record you could get as a quarterback,
and he's won a Super Bowl.
You want to give them their just due as they're making
their way off center stage.
But, A, we don't really know that this is it.
I'll believe it when I see them line up next year
and he's not a quarterback.
And, B, we're still doing a game.
And so you want to talk about how great this guy has been.
And I know it's killin' him that he's coming off a bad game,
and that could be his last taste of the NFL.
But you have to weigh saying so long to a hero to so many
with actually doing the game.
And then giving Tampa Bay and Tom Brady
they're just due, because they just
won another game on the road.
And they're one game away from going to the Super Bowl now.
Yeah.
Who do you think--
I know it's a guess, you don't know.
But who do you think is going to end up in the Super Bowl?
If you had asked me at the beginning of the season,
I might have had the same answer.
I would have said Kansas City in the AFC.
Although I think Buffalo will give them all
they can handle, and could very well win that game.
And I think the home team in the NFC.
I think Green Bay.
I don't think any team's playing anywhere
close to the level the Green Bay's playing on offense.
But then you've got Tom Brady.
And they're hot.
And they feel good.
And they're on the road.
And-- I mean, that's what makes this game so fun.
I can't really point to a favorite, other than to say,
until somebody stops Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay,
I'm going to pick them to go to the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
Well, me too.
We're gonna to test you to see if there's anything
that you can't do play-by-play.
So we're going to play a classic web video,
then you're going to do a sports broadcast for it, OK?
Yeah.
I'm going to put these on for this.
All right.
Here's the first one.
Get it, get it.
All right, here's a young person.
A young person who's in his high chair, giving it all he's got.
Look at the determination on this kid's face,
trying to blow out that candle.
Not getting the whole idea-- you gotta blow out.
You gotta blow out.
Looking to put this candle out.
1st birthday-- we'll always watch this video
for the rest of our lives.
And, wow, he got it.
Unbelievable.
I'm sure he got no help from the person behind the camera.
Excellent, excellent.
It was very exciting.
It was exciting without you doing the play-by-play,
but more exciting with you.
They should have hired you to--
all right, let's see another one.
Well, this is not good.
I mean, it looks like somebody's car.
It's a hairpin turn.
It's turned over.
Now they're trying to get the car back on its four wheels.
It looks like momentum is-- and there it is.
The car is-- the car is getting away.
And now down the hill it goes, and never to be seen again.
And the guy's just like, well, what the hell
do you want me to do about it?
All right, Joe is going to be calling the NFC Championship
game between Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
this Sunday on Fox.
I can't wait for that one.
Joe, so nice meeting you.
I'll talk to you soon.