NFL Update and a “Shot” at Joe Buck
The number of undefeated NFL teams has dwindled down to three as two previously unbeaten teams lost last week.
Two of the three (5-0) teams are in the AFC West. The Broncos have been dominant, although they had to score 51 points to fight back and win (51-48) in Dallas vs the (2-3) Cowboys.
The other (5-0) team from the AFC West, the Kansas City Chiefs (remember their huddle in the AFL and early AFC days with quarterback Len Dawson facing the other ten players) won (26-17) at Tennessee vs the Titans last week. The Titans were once the Houston Oilers and in 1962, faced the Chiefs franchise (the Dallas Texans) in a 2 overtime AFL title game.
Tommy Brooker’s field goal won the game for the Texans. Jack Buck, who begot Joe Buck, conducted post game interviews that day and was also the lead announcer for far greater Texans/Chiefs’ franchise glory when K.C. upset the Vikings in the 4th Super Bowl.
I witnessed the utter disgrace of Joe Buck, at an event honoring his father, saying “my father broadcast the Ice Bowl in 1969.”
The game was played on the last day of 1967. It was a dinner honoring your dad and yet you (Joe Buck—always talking at me) did not get the facts straight on one of the great games in history.
It has not hurt Buck very much as he makes millions as the “top” announcer in sports today. In a span of a few months, he will “call” both the World Series and Super Bowl in the same season for a record tying fourth time (Curt Gowdy also broadcast both in the same season on four different occasions) this year.
The location for that fourth Super Bowl was New Orleans and the “Crescent City” houses the other (5-0) team, the New Orleans Saints. They won by 8 points at Chicago last week.
Andy B Sports 