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1. Longtime play-by-play caller Joe Buck opened up about his first year calling Monday Night Football (and many other topics) on the latest episode of the SI Media Podcast.
After a wild NFL offseason that saw major changes in the broadcasting world, there probably wasn’t a more shocking move than Buck and partner, Troy Aikman, joining ESPN after calling games together for 20 years at Fox.
With Buck now having been at ESPN for eight months and having called Monday Night Football for three months, he reflected on why he thinks the move happened and revealed what’s different about working at ESPN as opposed to Fox.