Joe Buck: My addiction to hair plugs nearly cost me my voice

Pretty sure both Buck and Nantzy jerk off to the sound of their own voices.

 

I think joe buck has spent the last several years trying not to be this "performance" guy. Can't fault him for trying to shed some of the outer skin of BS that we all have in our lives.

 

This is still one of the saddest stories I've ever read. I remember so well from when it was first posted here. The part where they cry together in the hallway of the courthouse after it's over could be a scene in a Raymond Carver short story.

 

I've never quite understood the Buck loathing. To me, he's so much more likeable than Nantz. Occasionally I'll write something that's controversial and alt-right nut jobs will spend the day attacking me on Twitter and it's always about your looks. Always. I always try to imagine that times 10 million.

 

Hello friends

 

I used to be a Buck hater (having him be the soundtrack to multiple painful World Series and playoff losses will do that), but I had basically gotten to neutral on him. He handles himself professionally on the air, has put a little more visible effort in and has been able to paper over what I don't like about his style with being experienced and informed. I think I realized he was just the face of all the production things FOX does that I don't like.

There was a good article within the last year in which Buck kind of let everyone into his world and he comes off as fairly grounded.

https://theringer.com/joe-buck-nfl-mlb-troy-aikman-announcer-f9657c5674f9#.h5fpvgcee

But developing an obsession with getting hair plugs? Kind of brings a lot of those feelings of vanity and superficialness back into play for me. Oh well, I suppose it's none of my business anyway.

 

The fact that he's admitting this knowing people like you are going to judge him for that insecurity, to me, makes him even more admirable. You can say it's vain to write a memoir, but the real vanity would be writing a memoir that painted yourself in the most flattering light. He's saying "Look at how insecure I felt about my looks. Look at what I nearly did to myself. And I can't even promise I won't do it again. To me, he almost wrote this because by putting it out there he's revealing a vulnerability that's the first step to accepting who he is/what he looks like.

 

I understand Buck getting plugs. The visual projected to the viewers comes into play. And as noted above, he's selling a book and the story of how he lost the ability to do his job and lied to cover up the true cause is a hook. He's opening himself up to a lot of potential blowback by admitting it.

Over 25 years ago the call sheets after each broadcast (local TV) was where the on-air went to see what was being said. I remember one who damn near lived and died with what written on those sheets.

 

Buck has been openly contemptuous of the sports he covers, and has found himself apologizing for his demonstrated lack of interest. Given that and how he got his start in the first place, skipping to the front of the line, he is pretty easy to picture as an unlikable, entitled douche.

 

I can only guess the loathing is fueled by envy, and nothing else. Joe Buck does a fine job. Jim Nantz does a fine job. I have no idea why so many here hate either of them. So many people figure they can do better, yet there they still are -- on their couch.

 

Part of it too - and this is on Fox - is that he's overexposed. NFL. Baseball. Golf (which has been a spectacular fail). Thank Tebow for Gus Johnson or he'd be doing UFC. Remember a few years ago they were charting the progress of his limo as he went from a 49ers game at Candlestick to a playoff game at AT&T. And why?

Curt Gowdy pulled it off with NBC in the 60s and 70s. But that's because he's Curt Gowdy.