Joe Buck Once Called an NFL Touchdown While Peeing on Live TV

10:25 - 09 August 2024

Joe Buck Called an NFL Touchdown While Peeing

The list of things men typically do while peeing is actually pretty short. Talk to the guy at the next urinal while studiously not making eye contact. Check your phone. Spell your name if you happen to be outside and/or drunk. Driving, if you get caught on a highway and cant stop. Whistling, for some reason. Those are the obvious onesthough of course there are going to be rule-breakers, innovators. Heroes, even.

Football announcer Joe Buck may fall into that later category with this a few years ago. Buck and Stern got into the high stakes that come with calling a Super Bowl.

Buck shared how much preparation he puts into a game, acknowledging that the average sports fan is much better informed than when he started more than twenty years ago. And yeah, he still gets jittery looking into the camera when that thirty-second countdown begins, just before his face is beamed out to nearly 200 million people, by

So far, so predictable. Buck has a hard job, and the intricacies of it are fascinating. He talks about taking flak for not jumping for glee at David Tyrees from Super Bowl XLIIa that Buck couldnt be sure from the booth what hed seen.

But then consummate interviewer Howard Stern : What happens if you have to pee during a Super Bowl? Buck revealed that, in fact, hed called an NFL touchdown while peeing. Turns out a half stretched by injuries and time outs left Buck in booth, having to go; when he mentioned the potentially sticky problem, a guy next to him handed him a water bottle. (Surely we can all relate.)

During a thirty-second timeout, Buck, dressed in a parka, took the bottle and a garbage can, placing them under the desk. Just as the stream began to flow, play resumed, with a touchdown passand I am literally peeing into the trashcan while I call the touchdown, Buck concluded. Thats Joe Buck, truly raising the bar for what men can do while urinating.