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Buck, Aikman excited about 'starting over' with ESPN
17.05.2022 - 04:31 / abcnews.go.com
It's been two months since Joe Buck jumped from Fox to ESPN. It wasn’t until Monday that the gravity of moving into the “Monday Night Football” booth hit him.Buck and Troy Aikman made their first trips to ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, to meet with executives and future co-workers who are preparing for the upcoming season.“It literally dropped out of the sky.
The more I get around it, Troy and I were just blown away. We were in a conference room an hour ago with 20-plus people from all different parts of the support staff for ‘Monday Night Football,’ and it was overwhelming.
I actually got emotional talking about it,” Buck said Monday in his first comments since ESPN signed him and Aikman in March.Aikman had considered pairing Thursday night games on Amazon with a reduced Fox schedule that would allow him to keep working the playoffs and Super Bowl. As trying to put that together became more challenging, ESPN started talking to the Hall of Fame quarterback about moving into the Monday night booth.Aikman said the possibility of coming to ESPN — where he gets to call prime-time and playoff games and stays in the Super Bowl rotation — didn’t crystalize until after this year's Super Bowl.“This is an opportunity with ESPN that I’m really excited about,” Aikman said.
“I mean, like Joe said, we’ve been doing it for so long one way. To see how someone else does it and to work with different people, I feel like it’s 2001 again.
And kind of starting over my broadcasting career, and it probably comes at a really good time for me personally and probably for Joe, as well.”Once ESPN landed Aikman, conversations began about Buck joining him even though Buck’s contract at Fox still had a year remaining. Buck said the parting
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