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Moeller TV Listings 6/23/08

Joe Buck, former Cardinals radio/TV broadcaster, will be a guest tonight for the first time ever on "The Late Show with David Letterman." The lead MLB and NFL announcer on FOX Television, Buck has guested previously on Leno, Conan, and even guest-hosted "The Late Late Show" prior to Craig Ferguson's appointment, but this will be the first time with King Dave on CBS. Joe's father, Jack, a Cards' broadcasting legend from 1954 until his death in 2002, was CBS Radio's lead man for two decades on Monday Night Football and broadcast nationally 11 World Series and 17 Super Bowls.

I've often wondered if the elder Buck, who was no stranger to plaid sport coats and square politics, knew what he was doing in 1969 when he gave his newborn son the same name as the lead character, a male hustler, in that year's Academy Award-winning film, "Midnight Cowboy."

posted by CM @ 10:42 AM