SUPER VACAY

Without big game to call, Buck will spend Sunday in Mexico

PHOENIX — Joe Buck was in a Paris bar during the NFC Championship game, watching the Fox broadcast of the game between the Eagles and 49ers on his phone. For Super Bowl LVII this Sunday, he will be in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, at a party.

“I’ll watch and root for the guys to do great,” Buck told The Post.

“The guys” are Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen, who succeeded Buck and Troy Aikman as Fox’s top NFL game-callers after Buck and Aikman left for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”

Buck had one year left on his Fox deal. After trying to keep him with a $12 million-per-year offer, however, Fox allowed Buck to leave last March, though 2022 was a Super Bowl season for the network.

If Buck had stayed at Fox (which has two of the next three Super Bowls), he would have put himself in a better position to surpass Al Michaels’ and Pat Summerall’s record of 11 Super Bowls called on TV.

Buck, 53, has been on the TV mic for six Super Bowls, which means he will still have a chance to match the record of the legendary Michaels and Summerall. He will call Super Bowl LXI in February 2027 for ABC/ESPN.

When his NFL total is combined with the 24 World Series that Buck called for Fox, he could go down as the most statistically accomplished play-by-player in American sportscasting history.

Who is the best is, of course, subjective. It still means a lot to some.

Jim Nantz, for example, has already stated his goal is to call 50 Masters, which, if he accomplishes it, would mean talking about the azaleas in Augusta until he is 75 in 2035.

Buck said he doesn’t want to become — to borrow a classic from Mike Francesa — a “compilah.”

“No, I don’t think like that,” Buck said. “I don’t know why. It seems like it’s something that other people, including my family, want to talk about a lot with regard to the volume.

“I’m proud of the consistency. But as far as the total number, that’s not anything I will be thinking about when I take my last breath. I learned that from my dad [Jack Buck] and following his career and learning at a young age that this business is not always fair.

“I was in the right spot at the right time and very lucky that Fox kept getting the rights for not only baseball, but obviously football. But it’s not always a reflection of excellence. I think sometimes, it is just being in the right circumstance, which I was at a great place for 20-plus years.”

Sunday, he’ll be in Cabo. That doesn’t seem half bad.