Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw raised more than a few eyebrows for his comments prior to Super Bowl LVII in which he appeared to express a desire to drop dead on live television in order to help the ratings.
“I told Fox, if I could just die on the show, think about the ratings, right? Are we not about ratings? That’d be huge,” he said. “Not only that, it’d be a huge carryover. All the networks would be saying that Bradshaw died on the Fox NFL show. Can you imagine the huge stuff? And maybe I get a huge statue out front.”
While he was almost certainly joking, Bradshaw certainly appears in no way, shape or form ready to step aside.
“What would happen with the studio?” Bradshaw asked about the prospect of retiring. “Who would take my place? That’s not ever going to happen.”
“But I want to do it, if I keep my health together, I love what I’m doing,” Bradshaw said. “But we all get old. We all get kicked out. I’m not looking over my shoulder, but [Tom] Brady is coming in.”
The good news for Bradshaw is that he announced that he was cancer free after having battled both bladder and skin cancer.
“I’m good,” he said. “I just left the hospital [Monday]. I had another treatment. Got no sleep. Got up at 1 a.m., drove to New York and came out here. I’m a little beat today, but I’m good. Cancer-free.”
