'Jeopardy!' Fans Have Joined the Ranks of People Who Hate Joe Buck

[El Supremo]

Going into his Jeopardy! hosting stint, Joe Buck was surely bracing for impact. The Fox sportscaster is a lightning rod in the NFL and MLB worlds, inspiring so much antipathy among sports fans that they’ve chanted “Joe Buck sucks” at games and petitioned to have him banned from live commentary. Combine a public figure people love to hate and an always riled-up fanbase, like the Jeopardy! hive, and sparks are bound to fly.

This week, Buck took the storied Jeopardy! lectern as the final guest host of Season 37, and as expected, fans made no secret of how they feel about him. But surprisingly, the feedback was a mixed bag, with some viewers even giving Buck begrudging credit for hosting the game well. Others compared him to Nickelback and begged him to quit his day job, including legendary Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer. You can’t win ‘em all, right? Buck, for his part, was prepared for pushback.

“For the most part, everybody wants to be liked,” Buck told Esquire in 2018. “At some point, you can’t be unrealistic about it. The only people I want to really like me are my family and the people who employ me.” Buck also told Esquire how he responds to the public's perception of him, saying "I try to have fun with it. I think you kind of stick the pin in the balloon and let the air out, and if people know you can laugh at yourself, well, I can’t be that big of a dick."

Bringing in a human lightning rod to round out the season is a fitting end to this strange, sad, exhilarating year of Jeopardy!, which saw fans engage with the show on social media like never before. Below, we rounded up a sampling of feedback to Buck’s hosting gig.

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Big group.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. All I know is that when my other half went to cater an event at Joe Buck's (the senior), JB intro-

duced himself as Joe Buck, senior and my other half introduced himself right back to Joe Buck, Sr.:

Hi, I'm XXX YYYY, shaking Joe Buck Sr's hand during the process (at his house in STLMO).

My other half never heard of Joe Buck Sr., prior to this moment and I think Joe Buck Sr. was a little thrown off by someone not knowing who he was. After that, we are not impressed w/ these people so much.

I do have a nice story about the Schnucks, thought...Mrs. Schnuck had a catering event at her place, and my SO left his rather elaborate bottle opener, and she got in contact w/ the caterer, found out and reached out to my SO, and had him stop by her rather elaborate place in the County so he could pick up his bottle opener...how nice!

Schnuck's by the way is the large grocery store chain somewhat centered in STLMO...

[murielm99]

3. I know who the Schnucks are.

I agree that Mr. S. is a very nice man.

[El Supremo]

5. Do you mean Jack Buck?

Jack was Joe's father. There were some restaurants named J Bucks for both of them.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Senior

[yonder]

4. Another Junior I'm not a fan of.

[El Supremo]

7. Joe Buck strikes back!

“I wouldn’t know James Holzhauer if he was sitting here in my room,” Buck said. “I don’t know much about him. I know about his success on the show, but I don’t know what kind of a guy he is. I have no idea. I couldn’t care less. I’m at the point now where I am so over reacting to Twitter.”

“I don’t know who he roots for. I don’t know where he’s from,” Buck said. “I don’t know what his favorite team is. I have no idea. So that’s how I took it and kind of did a little eye roll and moved on to the next three-year-old’s diaper I had to change. That kind of stuff is becoming less relevant in my life.”

Whatever.

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