Terry Bradshaw's Colleague Makes Bold Prediction About His Future

Terry Bradshaw has been a staple of FOX's NFL pregame show for over three decades. One colleague doesn't expect his run to end anytime soon either.

Bradshaw, 77, is occasionally prone to on-air struggles, and has also been dealing with multiple health issues in recent years. It has led some fans to wonder how much TV time he has left.

The answer, according to co-host Curt Menefee, is as long as Bradshaw wants.

'Going to be carrying him out in a hearse'

In a recent interview with The Daily Mail, Menefee, who has worked alongside Bradshaw since 2007, was asked if he thought the Hall of Fame quarterback would leave Fox NFL Sunday.

His response was blunt, to say the least.

"It’s never gonna happen! They’re going to be carrying him out in a hearse — he is not leaving the show,” Menefee said, via the New York Post.

“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 in it for the long haul

Incredibly, dying on the set of FOX NFL Sunday is something Bradshaw actually joked about in an interview with Men's Journal in 2022.

Speaking with Jesse Will, the Pittsburgh Steelers icon made it clear he wasn't looking to ride off into the television sunset.

"I’m 73. There’s a part of me that says, 'How long can you do television?'" Bradshaw admitted. "There’s a bit of insecurity there. But I’m not through, I can tell you that. I live to entertain. Billy Graham said the minute you retire is the minute you start dying. But if I’ve got to go, I want to go on stage. What if I die on the Fox pregame show? I’d get the big numbers, right?"

However, in that same conversation, Bradshaw, who is also apparently testing a new cooking show for FOX, confessed that he waited too long to quit his former profession: football.

"After Super Bowl XIV, I was through," he said. "I thought winning four Super Bowls in nine years was pretty cool. I told my dad I wanted to retire. He asked me why, and I said, 'Well, I seriously doubt we’re ever going to be back for another Super Bowl with this collection of athletes. We’ve been together eight to 10 years.'

"So I got into TV. But after doing a pilot for a show that didn’t get picked up, I came back to football. I ended up staying too long, and for the wrong reason: I didn’t know what else I was going to do."