Joe Buck prefaces his explanation by reminding that he is his father’s son. And his late father, Jack, would not have taken any of this sitting down.
“I don’t know anybody who did more getting out in the community, shaking hands, helping people and wanting businesses to make money,” the son says about the father, who has been gone for more than 13 years yet remains a palpable, powerful influence. “He was an outsider when he arrived here. But the way I grew up was going with my dad into banquet halls. He had a way of wowing people.