What happens in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas during Super Bowl week, according to Joe Buck.
The ESPN broadcaster predicted that “something” is going to happen, and it’s going to be “a mess” amid the festivities in Sin City leading up to the big game between the Chiefs and 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 11.
“I do not have any desire to be there,” Buck said of Super Bowl 2024 during a Monday appearance on “The Opening Drive” on 101 ESPN in St. Louis. “It’s a lot of logistics. It’s a lot of congestion.
“I’m not that way. I’m not looking for the Maxim party and going out all night. It’s just not my thing and then you combine that with Vegas.
“There’s going to be some story, there’s gonna be something that happens because it’s Vegas and it won’t stay in Vegas. It’s gonna be a big something that happens. I don’t know what it is. I have no idea. I just think that is going to be a mess in my mind.”
Buck did not elaborate further about the “big something” he predicts will go down at Super Bowl 2024, just that he won’t be there to witness anything.
Super Bowl Opening Night went off without a hitch on Monday, with Chiefs and 49ers players facing questions from media about anything from Taylor Swift to Patrick Mahomes Sr. — who was arrested Saturday night in Tyler, Texas, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who’s been dating Swift since last summer, was pressed about a potential engagement with the 14-time Grammy-winning singer when one reporter asked, “Is there going to be another ring besides the Super Bowl ring,” if Kansas City wins its second consecutive title.
“I’m focused on getting this ring and that’s all my mind’s focused on right now,” Kelce replied, according to The Sporting Tribune.
Rumors of an engagement have been swirling for months after Page Six reported that Kelce asked Swift’s father, Scott Swift, for her hand in marriage.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was asked about his father and said the former MLB pitcher is “doing good” in the wake of the arrest.
Last year’s Super Bowl festivities in Phoenix — when the Chiefs beat the Eagles, 38-35, at State Farm Stadium — were interrupted by headlines about former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin, who was accused by a female employee of making lewd and inappropriate comments in a Marriott hotel lobby.
Irvin was temporarily pulled from the NFL Network’s Super Bowl coverage and later reached a settlement with Marriott in his $100 million defamation lawsuit against the hotel chain, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Buck, 54, also recalled attending Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles, where the Rams beat the Bengals, 23-20, at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 13, 2022.
The veteran play-by-play announcer was on the call for Fox at Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2, 2020, when the Chiefs beat the 49ers, 31-20, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
In March 2022, Buck signed a multi-year deal with ESPN, along with Troy Aikman, making them the new “Monday Night Football” announcers after over two decades together at Fox Sports.
