Much already has been made about Notre Dame opening the 2022 season at Ohio State, Marcus Freeman’s alma mater. Now, it appears the game has been involved in Joe Buck’s decision to leave his longstanding job at Fox for ESPN, mainly to call “Monday Night Football”. In exchange for allowing Buck to walk, Fox will be able to select one Big Ten game for the upcoming season. Awful Announcing is reporting that Fox likely will select the Irish-Buckeyes matchup as that game. This isn’t the first time there has been a prominent exchange involving a high-profile sports announcer. When Al Michaels left his longtime post at ABC in 2006 to call “Sunday Night Football” for NBC, Disney acquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Walt Disney lost the rights to before he created Mickey Mouse. It just goes to show that when someone has been at the head…
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