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I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

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Joe Buck
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: April 25
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
St. Petersburg
Florida
Joseph Francis Buck
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Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.
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When I'm doing TV, it's more of a choreographed dance, in a way. So I've got to follow the pictures, or the pictures have to follow me.
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Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.
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And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.
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I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.
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Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.
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You know what you gotta do cowboy?
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I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.
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No fat batboy is invisible.
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It's a different world for those of us who are doing this for a living. Certainly a lot different than my dad had to deal with when he was calling games on a national level for CBS. It's just a different world. I'm not saying it's better or worse, there's just a lot more access.
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There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.
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It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.
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I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I know he offered to not be a part of the broadcast - he wasn't on the air. We'd all miss something. I think the [brother situation] adds the human element.
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Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.
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You have to do well on third downs.
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You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.
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I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.
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You have to trust yourself.
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One of my best friends is Paul Rudd, and he's been in just about every one of Judd Apatow's movies.
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Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
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