S#(% Terry Bradshaw Says ...
The famed former Steeler went on a tangent recently, saying some things that are going to have many members of Steeler Nation calling for either his blood, his Super Bowl rings or his very soul.
Famed Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, he of four Super Bowl rings, went on a tangent recently in an interview with his hometown newspaper the Shreveport Times, during which he said some fantastic things, but also some things that are going to have many members of Steeler Nation calling for either his blood, his Super Bowl rings or his very soul.
First, the awesome, particularly in light of the news that Roger Goodell did indeed cut Ben Roethlisberger's suspension from six games to four today:
"Going to bars—treating women like that; oh my God. I pray they don't cut [his NFL suspension] to four games. I hope they leave it at six. There is no excuse for that. The egos get out of hand."
Well, amen to that! If you're going to teach the players of the NFL a lesson with suspensions, it would be a good idea to adhere to the suspensions you give out. This is the exact same science that says if you tell a child that you will put him in timeout for five minutes if he doesn't stop using Sharpie on the walls, and then you only put him in time out for 30 seconds, you will indeed find freshly Sharpied walls in the near future.
Also, an aside, the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser will erase Sharpie off of your walls, but it will ALSO erase the wall paint. Like magic.
Moving on, Terry said:
Bradshaw singled out players like Miami Dolphins defensive end Kendall Langford, who spent an hour after a recent practice not taking part in additional workouts, but instead looking for a $50,000 earring that he lost during practice.
"I hope they never find it—$50,000?" Bradshaw said. "Go tell that to somebody that can't pay for his kid's education or can't get them into a hospital room and get them treated properly. Here is a guy wearing a $50,000 earring to practice. I hope they stomped on it and I hope he never found it."
"Testify!" and "Amen!" and "That's church!" to that, Terry!
$50,000 for one earring and you wear that earring to PRACTICE? I hope a pigeon eats it. And then I hope the pigeon explodes.
"I don't like guys like that. I'm tired of the earrings, the hair down to the a**—I'm tired of a lot of stuff."
Gasp! I think Terry just insulted Troy Polamalu.
"I would do it all over again: I wish I didn't have to play for Pittsburgh. I wish I could have played down here and won some Super Bowls—how cool would that have been?" he said.
Oh. Boy. Terry Bradshaw just said he wished he hadn't played for Pittsburgh. If he had played in his home state, he likely wouldn't have been an NFL superstar, and likely would never have gone on to be an actor and a commentator and you know, filthy rich. Seems to me, Terry Bradshaw owes a lot to Pittsburgh and to hear him say these things, well, like I said, yinzers are going to call for his rings and zombies are going to rise up out of Monroeville Mall and go for his brains.
But before you get all mad and grab your pitchfork, go back and read everything Terry said again but this time, imagine he's sitting on his porch in his robe and socks while throwing rocks at the neighborhood children to GET OFF HIS LAWN.
Then it doesn't seem so bad. He's just a crazy old guy. Who better never touch a Terrible Towel again because I'm pretty sure the ghost of Myron Cope will reach out of it and slap him across the face.
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Reader Comments:
OH NO HE DIDN'T!
Nah, Ginny - he didn't say he wished that he *hadn't* played for Pittsburgh, he wished that he didn't *have to* play for Pittsburgh. I'm pretty sure that was intended to come across as "You know, I really wish I could have stayed here and played football where I grew up, but you schmucks wouldn't give me a crack at it. I wanted to play football more than I wanted to stay here... and that meant I had to leave."
I am old enough (sigh) to remember all the booing of Bradshaw when he was a player. Unfortunately the city wasn't always so nice to him. I understand his love/hate relationship with Pittsburgh. I read that sentence less as a dis on the 'burgh, though, and more as a good quote one gives to one's hometown paper saying, "man it would have been great to play here." If Marino said it, you'd eat up with a spoon and cherries on top.
He played here, he won 4 Super Bowls here, and he's a funny character. This 'burgher will always love Terry.
I am old enough (sigh) to remember all the booing of Bradshaw when he was a player. Unfortunately the city wasn't always so nice to him. I understand his love/hate relationship with Pittsburgh. I read that sentence less as a dis on the 'burgh, though, and more as a good quote one gives to one's hometown paper saying, "man it would have been great to play here." If Marino said it, you'd eat up with a spoon and cherries on top.
He played here, he won 4 Super Bowls here, and he's a funny character. This 'burgher will always love Terry.
Seems all those concussions are finally having an effect on the old man.
Bradshaw loves the spotlight, and stirs up some dust sometimes. He WAS NOT treated well here, and in todays age he would have to be paid $20 million a season, ala Brett. The fact is without Mr. Terry Bradshaw, there would be no case full of Lombardi's, no Steeler Nation, none of it. He was tough as friggin nails, and the team's leader w/ Mean Joe and and Lambert on defense. He's a pain in the @## sometimes, but he WAS DA MAN. Remember the shot he took when he hit Swann in stride to beat the Cryboys??? Thats all I gotta say.........
holy crap, nice way to bite the hand that made you who you were.
I actually read the remark the same as a couple of others -- that his main preference would have been to be the quarterback of the hometown team, but that wasn't possible and he ended up in Pittsburgh. Bradshaw has openly acknowledge that he has a tendency to "open mouth, insert foot" and have what he means come across differently from what he says.
He's a paid talking head. Who really cares what Mr Bradshaw says in an interview? Things come out, sometimes good sometimes bad.
I have to agree that Terry Bradshaw "opens mouth-inserts foot" here and it's not the first time. But we DO have a case full of Lombardis and we ARE a Steeler Nation and we can't deny that he was a part of it all. And we did treat him badly on ocassion... So do we forgive and forget? Nah, not right now anyway - maybe later.
P.S. I just have to make a comment re the "burgher" wars in last months issue. I grew up in Pittsburgh/Allegheny County, worked in the city but did not live in the city, etc. I had to move to another state but I STILL bleed black and gold and I will until I die! I miss the burgh more than you know and visit every chance I get. I subscribe to this magazine so that I can keep up with what is going on in the burgh. I will always be a "burgher" and NOTHING will change that. Whoever says that you can't be a burgher if you live outside Allegheny County is probably way too young to know better. Hth do you think we became a "Steeler Nation".