Joe Buck has followed in his father Jack’s path by becoming a successful sports broadcaster, and the two will have one more thing in common when the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday.
It has been exactly 50 years since Jack Buck called his first and only Super Bowl alongside Pat Summerall. That also happened to be the last time the Kansas City Chiefs appeared in the big game. Joe Buck will be calling his sixth Super Bowl on Sunday, but he told Brian Kilmeade of “Fox & Friends” this week that his dad would not want him focusing on the nostalgia.
“I don’t think I knew about it because my dad was not the guy to go back and go, ‘Oh well, let me sit down and tell you all the stuff I did,'” Buck said. “He went forward. He was a Purple Heart recipient for being shot in World War II in Germany. He didn’t talk about that either.”
The younger Buck did acknowledge that the Super Bowl has become a much bigger event since his dad called it 50 years ago.
“I just feel like this game has gotten bigger,” Joe Buck said. “The hype has gotten more overwhelming.”
Jack Buck died in 2002 following a battle with diabetes, lung cancer and Parkinson’s Disease. He was 77.
