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Fox is investigating who leaked a clip of NFL broadcasters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman talking about military flyovers before Sunday’s Packers-Buccaneers game — comments Buck says weren’t actually caught on hot mics and were taken out of context.
“This was before our rehearsal … it was clipped by someone along the chain…. They are narrowing down who clipped and sold it,” Buck said on his “Daddy Issues” podcast, telling cohost Oliver Hudson that the network is investigating the incident after the clip drew backlash from people who thought he and Aikman were mocking the military.
Fox Sports declined to comment on the matter.
“They will find out who it is because that specific shot of that flyover, which I personally thought was old and a tape … it was actually live but it was not a Fox shot. They know whose shot that was and it was well before the game.”
Buck explains that he and Aikman were reiterating comments made by people on their crew at a dinner the night before, clarifying that the two were mocking those two people and not the military.
“So I see this, and Troy in the microphone is repeating something that he heard the night before from an unnamed person on our crew,” he said. “This person happens to be very far left and said, ‘Well, under Biden-Harris, you know that’s not going to happen,’ and Troy was repeating that watching the flyover.
“So they clipped that as if he’s saying that and as if he’s a Harris-Biden fan. But he’s repeating something that somebody said the night before, which is unbelievable. If you know Troy at all, he was being 100-percent sarcastic. Repeating for the person in the truck to hear, like ‘Ha, ha, ha.’
“And then I go into a 1950s voice, like, ‘There’s your hard-earned tax dollars at work,’ or whatever…
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