Joe Buck Shrugs Off the Haters

Fox Sports announcer chats with The New York Times, Howard Stern and others ahead of his fifth Super Bowl

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Most if not all of us have at least one friend like this, usually male. This person cannot and will never stop talking about how much they hate Joe Buck, who will be handling Super Bowl LI play-by-play on Fox alongside color commentator Troy Aikman and sideline reporters Erin Andrews and Chris Myers.

Thus, it’s not surprising that the first question asked by Ana Marie Cox in a brief New York Times Magazine Q&A running this weekend reads as follows:

I really didn’t want to ask you about being hated, but — truly — when I told people I was going to interview you, the first thing out of everyone’s mouth was “I hate that guy.”

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