Even 20 years later, Joe Buck remembers the nerves before the call of Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville.
Buck was just 35 years old in February 2005, the youngest broadcaster ever to call the Super Bowl for the lead television rights holder. In fact, the entire Fox Sports broadcast booth that night — Buck, Troy Aikman and Cris Collinsworth — were Super Bowl broadcast rookies. Collinsworth had some experience as a Super Bowl pregame host, but this was fresh (and nerve-wracking) territory for the trio.
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To quell his nerves on game day, Buck provided himself a couple of visual cues on his broadcast boards, the cheat sheets broadcasters use to list
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