With barely any live sports to call, some professional commentators have turned to calling home videos of their dogs or races around the backyard pool. Fox’s Joe Buck offered to call random videos sent in by his followers – and unsurprisingly, received a few NSFW submissions in his inbox. Buck joked that he wasn’t in the right stage of his life to commentate such activities – but one company tried to change Buck’s mind by offering him a massive check.
In a press release, adult site ImLive announced an offer to Buck of $1,000,000 to commentate 25 live cam shows per week for a total of six weeks – which seems like a lowball offer and a lot of work for one of the most famous voices in sports. Buck, it turns out, was flattered by the offer, but has opted to turn it down.
Depending on the site they could just be handing some of my money back to me. So I’ll hold out for a better offer and try to hold on to my day job. But I have to say I’m flattered. https://t.co/wBgkwnHyrA
— Joe Buck (@Buck) April 17, 2020
Today – this 17th day of April in the year 2020 – I became the first sports announcer to ever reject a 7 figure offer from a porn site. @MichelleBeisner I want this on my headstone.
(The above claim is NOT fact checked) https://t.co/Xn3WkX9Xk4— Joe Buck (@Buck) April 17, 2020
Of all the offers you’ve turned down to keep your day job @Buck – this one not only hurts the most, but also had the most potential. Epic fail. https://t.co/tz5fquc3nf
— MichelleBeisnerBuck (@MichelleBeisner) April 17, 2020
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