Who Are The Fox Nfl Commentators?
The Fox NFL commentators are a group of former NFL players, coaches and other sports commentators who provide analysis during NFL games.
Joe Buck
Joe Buck is an American sportscaster and the son of legendary St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play man, Jack Buck. Joe Buck has been the lead play-by-play voice for Fox’s NFL coverage since 2002. He also called Major League Baseball games for Fox from 1996 to 2001, and served as the lead play-by-play voice for the network’s broadcast of the World Series from 1996 to 1999.
His work
Joe Buck is an American sportscaster and the son of legendary sportscaster Jack Buck. He has been the play-by-play announcer for the World Series on Fox since 1996, and the National Football League on Fox since 1994. He also called eight Super Bowls for Fox. Buck is currently a special correspondent for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
His life
Joseph Francis Buck was born on April 25, 1969, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of sportscaster Jack Buck and journalist Carole Lintzenich. Joe Buck followed in his father’s footsteps, beginning his broadcasting career while still a teenager. He started out working on high school football games for a local radio station in St. Louis. In 1989, he became the broadcast partner of his father on Cardinals baseball games on KMOX radio.
After graduating from college, Buck began his television career working for ESPN. He called play-by-play for various college sports events, as well as minor league baseball games. In 1994, he was hired by Fox Sports to be the lead play-by-play announcer for their newly acquired NFL rights. He has been with Fox ever since, calling every Super Bowl since 1997 (XXXI). He has also called World Series games for Fox (1996 and 1998), and continues to serve as the network’s top MLB play-by-play voice.
Troy Aikman
Troy Aikman was born on November 21, 1966, in West Covina, California. He is a former professional American football quarterback who played for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. Aikman was the first overall draft pick by the Cowboys in the 1989 NFL Draft, and he became the Cowboys’ starting quarterback during the 1991 season.
His work
Troy Aikman was born on November 21, 1966, in West Covina, California. He is the second son of Jane (née Gooseman) and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bobby Joe Aikman. Aikman’s parents divorced when he was 12 and his mother remarried to a stepfather, Jim McNeely. Troy and his family moved to Henryetta, Oklahoma, where he played football at Henryetta High School, leading his team to the state semifinals as a senior.
In 1984, Aikman signed a letter of intent to play quarterback for Terry Donahue’s UCLA Bruins football team. As a freshman in 1985, he was backing up Steve Bono. When Bono suffered an injury during the fourth game of the season against Stanford, Aikman took over and started the remaining games for the Bruins. He led UCLA to victories in eight of its next 10 games before losing to Brigham Young University in the 1986 Freedom Bowl. Aikman finished his college career with 2,527 passing yards, 22 touchdowns against only 13 interceptions while completing 61 percent of his passes
His life
Troy Aikman was born on November 21, 1966, in West Covina, California. He was the youngest of three children of his mother and father, Jane and Charles Aikman. When he was 12, his family moved to Henryetta, Oklahoma, where he became a star quarterback in high school. He led his team to the state championships in 1983 and 1984.
In 1985, he enrolled at UCLA on a football scholarship. He played for the Bruins for four years and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Rose Bowl in 1989. That same year, he was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the NFL draft.
Aikman played for the Cowboys for 12 seasons and led them to victory in Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994, and Super Bowl XXX in 1996. He retired from football in 2001 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
Since retiring from football, Aikman has worked as a television commentator for Fox NFL Sunday. He has also been involved with a number of business ventures, including restaurants, real estate development, and sporting goods. In 2008, he was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews is a co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. She is also a sideline reporter for Fox NFL and a host of Fox’s college football pre-game show, Big Noon Kickoff. Erin was born in Lewiston, Maine, on May 4, 1978. Her father is a TV journalist and her mother is a teacher. She has two older sisters, Katie and Laura. Erin graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with a degree in telecommunication.
Her work
Erin Andrews is an American sportscaster and television personality. She currently works for Fox Sports and ABC. Ms. Andrews began working for Fox Sports Florida as a reporter in 2000 and became a sideline reporter for the network’s national coverage of college football in 2004. She has also worked as a studio host for various Fox Sports programs, including Fox NFL Sunday. In 2010, she was awarded a Peabody Award for her work on the documentary series The Moment. Ms. Andrews is also a popular television personality, appearing as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010 and as co-host of the show from 2014 to 2015.
Her life
Erin Jillian Andrews (born May 4, 1978) is an American sportscaster and television personality. She hosts Dancing with the Stars for ABC and is a sideline reporter for Fox NFL.
Andrews was born in Lewiston, Maine, to Paula Andrews, a teacher, and Steven Andrews, a TV journalist. She graduated from Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida, in 1996. While attending high school, she was a cheerleader and member of the National Honor Society. In high school, Andrews claimed that she was abducted by a stranger.
After graduating from college in 2000, she worked for ESPN as a sideline reporter for NHL games. From 2001 to 2002, she worked as a reporter for Turner Sports’ coverage of the Atlanta Braves baseball team and also covered the 2002 Winter Olympics for Turner Sports.
In 2002, she moved to Fox Sports Florida as a studio host and reporter for Sunshine Network’s college football and basketball broadcasts. From 2004 to 2006, Andrews served as a sideline reporter for nationally televised games during the regular season as well as Fox’s coverage of both the 2004 NFL playoffs and the 2006 Daytona 500.
Andrews began working for ESPN in April 2010 as co-host of College GameDay Built by The Home Depot on ESPNU then moving to ESPN later that year.