Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were on the call for the first game of the NFL's Divisional weekend on Saturday afternoon. ESPN had the AFC matchup between the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans.
"Troy has won, lost, bled, sweated, and he's earned his opinion," Buck said. "That's what makes for great, honest TV."
Football fans noticed the same concerning-looking thing about Troy Aikman during the Texans-Chiefs playoff game.
Troy Aikman believes the NFL’s gambling partnerships makes it more important than ever to get calls right on the field. Aikman became somewhat of a folk hero for criticizing the officiating while calling the Kansas City Chiefs-Houston Texans matchup alongside Joe Buck during the divisional round of the NFL playoffs for ESPN.
Description: Troy Aikman and Joe Buck discuss where the Texans went wrong in their loss to the Chiefs with Scott Van Pelt.
Patrick Mahomes rallied Kansas City to a 32-29 victory over Josh Allen and the Bills in the AFC championship game Sunday, sending the Chiefs back to the Super Bowl for the fifth time in six years with a chance to become the first team to threepeat.
Football commentator Joe Buck caught strays from Bears chairman George McCaskey on an unrelated topic about Tom Brady.
Fox Sports will be broadcasting the big game, and they will have their top crew on the call—Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady. This will be Brady’s first time calling a Super Bowl, after signing a massive 10-year, $375 million deal with Fox after he retired from playing.
With the Houston Texans trailing the Kansas City Chiefs 13–6 in the third quarter of Saturday's AFC divisional round playoff game, Houston running back Joe Mixon was on a mission to pull his team even in the biggest game of the season.
On this absolutely jam-packed edition of the Kevin O'Connor Show, ESPN's Bobby Marks *and* college basketball guru John Fanta both stop by to talk hoops. After anemic demand for some early-round CFP games, Buckeyes and Irish fans are snapping up championship tickets.
Las Vegas parted ways with the first-year coach-GM tandem of Antonio Pierce and Tom Telesco earlier this month, and the “allure” of Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion, was said to have helped the Raiders become an enticing option for Johnson, 38.
The Kansas City Chiefs find themselves once again in the Super Bowl, hoping to become the NFL 's first three-peat NFL xhampions. They do it on the back of a 15-2 regular-season record and despite a subpar statistical season from quarterback Patrick Mahomes - at least by his own standards.