PHOENIX — Terry Bradshaw is willing to be a showman to his very last breath.
Literally.
The 74-year-old Bradshaw spoke to reporters at Fox Sports media day in advance of their broadcast of Super Bowl 2023, and expressed a willingness to drop dead on the program.
“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.”
Bradshaw was communicating in a joking manner, but there was an element of truth to the idea that he does not want to step away.
“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.”
Bradshaw revealed in October that he battled two different forms of cancer — bladder and skin — before being diagnosed as cancer-free.
The Post asked him about his current health status on Tuesday.
“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.”
He reiterated that he had no intention of retiring from broadcasting soon — or ever.
“What would happen with the studio?” he asked. “Who would take my place? That’s not ever going to happen.”
