Filed under: Super Bowl, Sports Business and Media
On a day when the American penchant for wretched excess was on full display, the scarcity of words marked FOX's telecast of Super Bowl XLV.
Specifically, the ability of play-by-play man Joe Buck to frame game action using as little verbiage as necessary, while allowing his crew to illustrate the contest with terrific pictures and replays, salvaged the back half of what is annually the longest day in American television.
Buck, FOX's top football and baseball caller, is arguably the best all-around booth talent in the business. The son of late Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck, Joe, at 41 years old, is nearly at his dad's level, with a razor-sharp wit and a keen sense of knowing how to blend modern sensibility with old-school technique.
One of Buck's myriad strengths is his ability to, in television parlance, "lay out" and go silent, letting the moment speak for itself.
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