Terry Bradshaw

After ten years with CBS, including four years as sports analyst for the program The NFL Today, Bradshaw joined Fox Sports in 1995 with great fanfare, as Fox had wooed the NFL away from CBS. As co-host of the popular program Fox NFL Sunday, he has made the most of his country upbringing and has realized how much he loves to make people laugh. The show takes a lighter approach to professional football, one that new fans find as entertaining as the game itself. In fact to signify the beginning of a new style in football showmanship, Fox had Bradshaw dress in cowboy gear and ride in on a horse in its premiere show.

After an illustrious career as one of football history's greatest quarterbacks, as well as one of the game's best commentators, Bradshaw has beaten the Bayou Bumpkin label. Fox NFL Sunday is America's most-watched NFL pregame show, and has won three Emmy Awards. Bradshaw has emerged as today's preeminent NFL studio personality and in 2002 was voted America's Favorite Sportscaster in a TV Guide Reader's Poll.

Given his accomplishments it's a wonder that Bradshaw was ever tagged with the Southern simpleton stereotype. During his years with the Steelers, Bradshaw called all of his own plays. CBS play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall in his 1997 book Pat Summerall's Sports in America, declared Bradshaw to be one of the sharpest minds he had ever encountered. Bradshaw has shown himself to be incredibly versatile and savvy as an all-around media personality. He has co-authored five memoirs on his career. Bradshaw's interests are in no way limited to football. He is a devoted father to his daughters Erin and Rachel. He raises and breeds Sim-mental cattle and quarter horses on his ranch. He gives motivational speeches to corporate and other groups and endorses products. He occasionally appears in motion pictures and records gospel and country/western songs. Bradshaw, far outgrowing the Bayou Bumpkin, has shown himself to be a modern Man for All Seasons.