Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox analyst Terry Bradshaw is 77. He has spent 31 years with Fox.
He has no plan to call it quits.
“Retirement is not something that — I mean, I may not be with Fox,” Bradshaw said in a recent appearance on Sports Business Radio, via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing. “That would be their call, not mine. But I would still be speaking, but if not doing that, I’ll still work the bourbon trail.”
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Although, as Neumann notes, Bradshaw has mused about retirement in the past, his current mindset is to get busy living.
“Billy Graham said that the day that you retire is the day you start dying,” Bradshaw said. “I do believe a lot of people, when they stop using their brain and keep their thought processes moving and advancing, I do think, for whatever reason, I believe you age, and people end up dying. I mean, people die within a year after retirement. So I don’t want to do that. I see myself staying fully active right up to the end, whenever that is.”
Even if Fox doesn’t move on from Bradshaw, the NFL could (in theory) move on from Fox. The current deal between the NFL and Fox can be terminated by the league after the 2029 season. And the relentless political pressure that Fox owner Rupert Murdoch has placed on the NFL could prompt the league to move away from Fox, as soon as 2030.
Regardless, Bradshaw has the right attitude. Keep working, for as long as you can work. Because, frankly, covering the NFL doesn’t really feel like “work.”
