Terry Bradshaw makes bold retirement decision while teasing post-Fox future, ‘Day you start dying’

Terry Bradshaw is not going anywhere.

Unlike Jimmy Johnson, who announced his retirement from broadcasting ahead of the 2025 NFL season, Bradshaw not only completed the 2025 campaign, but is hoping to continue working in the 2026 season, and perhaps beyond.

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At 77-years-young, the four-time Super Bowl winning-quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers has reaffirmed his desire that he will not be retiring anytime soon.

However, he has admitted that his future may not lie with Fox, where he has spent the last 32 seasons as an analyst on Fox NFL Sunday, but only if they force him out.

“Retirement is not something that… I mean, I may not be with Fox,” Bradshaw said during a recent appearance on Sports Business Radio.

“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.”

The 2025 season was a rollercoaster one for Bradshaw.

Lowlights included on-air mistakes such as mispronouncing players’ names, which colleague Michael Strahan had to correct, to confusing players on new teams and speaking about things that were completely unrelated to the segments that the Fox studio crew were in.

These recurring gaffes, and some very strange stories including one about Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and a pig, led to some fans calling for the Steelers icon to hang up the mic for good.

Bradshaw has concerns over retiring

But Bradshaw won’t just yet, amid fears that his life would go significantly downhill afterwards.

“Billy Graham said that the day that you retire is the day you start dying,” Bradshaw added.

“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.

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“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.”

But even Bradshaw’s colleagues know he would never just willingly walk away from working.

“It’s never gonna happen,” Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee said back in late 2025 about Bradshaw possibly retiring.

“They’re going to be carrying him out in a hearse. He is not leaving the show. Nor should he!

“It was built around him [Bradshaw] — he was the first guy they hired… He was the first guy on air for this network.

“I don’t think he’s ever, ever going to leave. And nor should he. He is the heart and soul of everything we do at Fox Sports.”

Bradshaw did, however, float the idea of retirement back in February of 2025, when he said he would like to get to work on one more Super Bowl with the network.

“I told my wife before I left the hotel room, I was sitting there, I said, ‘I’ve got two years left at Fox. I’m 76,’” Bradshaw said in February 2025.

“It’s a young man’s game. I get that. Everybody wants their new [people]. I said, if we can get to the next Super Bowl, I’ll be 80.

“I think that’s time. That’s pushing it.”

With CBS having the reins for the 2027 Super Bowl, Fox have to wait until 2028, which is set to take place at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

Whether Bradshaw will still be with the network by then, though, remains to be seen.

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