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Joe Buck's addiction to hair plugs nearly cost him his voice
Not The Onion or Deadspin!
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/joe-bucks-addiction-to-hair-plugs-nearly-cost-him-his-voice-144626335.html
Joe Buck is one of the NFL’s signature voices, his weekly stint with Troy Aikman headlining NFL on Fox’s top game a signal that you’re watching the day’s biggest (or at least most-promoted) game. But it wasn’t that long ago that Buck feared he’d lost his voice, and for a most peculiar of reasons: an addiction to hair plugs.
In his upcoming memoir, quoted in Sports Illustrated, Buck indicated that he had been obsessed with avoiding baldness ever since his early 20s. “Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill,” he wrote. “I was worried that if I lost my hair, I would lose my job. OK, that’s bulls—. It was vanity. Pure vanity. I just told myself I was doing it for TV.”
Buck’s “vanity” ended up nearly costing him his career. Before the 2011 season, he underwent his eighth hair plug procedure but awoke to find he could not speak. Buck suspects that a cuff used in the procedure came to rest on the nerves leading to his vocal chords, damaging the pathway. Buck initially lied to his bosses and the public about the injury, claiming a virus while working to recover the use of his voice. That task became the driving force for writing the book, entitled “Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, And The Things I’m Not Allowed To Say On TV.”...
Buoyed by both use and injections directly into his vocal chords, Buck’s voice improved over the course of 2011, fully recovering by the time of that year’s World Series. Since then, he’s had no further hair replacement procedures, and while he wouldn’t rule it out, he won’t use general anesthetic again.
In his upcoming memoir, quoted in Sports Illustrated, Buck indicated that he had been obsessed with avoiding baldness ever since his early 20s. “Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill,” he wrote. “I was worried that if I lost my hair, I would lose my job. OK, that’s bulls—. It was vanity. Pure vanity. I just told myself I was doing it for TV.”
Buck’s “vanity” ended up nearly costing him his career. Before the 2011 season, he underwent his eighth hair plug procedure but awoke to find he could not speak. Buck suspects that a cuff used in the procedure came to rest on the nerves leading to his vocal chords, damaging the pathway. Buck initially lied to his bosses and the public about the injury, claiming a virus while working to recover the use of his voice. That task became the driving force for writing the book, entitled “Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, And The Things I’m Not Allowed To Say On TV.”...
Buoyed by both use and injections directly into his vocal chords, Buck’s voice improved over the course of 2011, fully recovering by the time of that year’s World Series. Since then, he’s had no further hair replacement procedures, and while he wouldn’t rule it out, he won’t use general anesthetic again.
The saddest words of tongue and pen are these: "It might have been."
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