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Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is a retired American football quarterback who played with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He has been a television sports analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday since 1994. Bradshaw is also a singer and actor, having been in numerous television series and films, most notably in the film Failure to Launch, and releasing multiple country music CDs.
He played 14 seasons for the Steelers, winning four Super Bowls in six years, becoming the first quarterback to win three and four Super Bowls, and leading the Steelers to eight AFC Central crowns. In 1989, his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1996, Bradshaw was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Bradshaw is recognized for being a strong competitor with one of the most powerful arms in NFL history. His athletic abilities and on-field leadership were essential in the Steelers’ history. Only seven times in his career did he pass for more than 300 yards in a game, but three of those efforts occurred in the postseason (two of which were in Super Bowls). He passed for 932 yards and 9 touchdowns in four career Super Bowl appearances, both Super Bowl records at the time of his retirement. He completed 261 throws for 3,833 yards in 19 career postseason games.
Terry Bradshaw Early Life
Bradshaw was born in 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father, William Marvin “Bill” Bradshaw (1927-2014), was a native of Sparta, Tennessee, and a former vice president of manufacturing for the Riley Beaird Company in Shreveport. He was also a Southern Baptist layman. Terry’s mother, Novis was one of Clifford and Lula Gay’s five children from Red River Parish, Louisiana. Gary is his older brother, and Craig is his younger brother.
His family lived in Camanche, Iowa, where he established the aim of playing professional football as a boy. As a teenager, Bradshaw returned to Shreveport with his family. He attended Woodlawn High School, where he played for assistant coach A. L. Williams and led the Knights to the AAA state championship game in 1965, where they were defeated 12-9 by the Sulphur Golden Tornadoes.
He set a national record for javelin throwing at 245 feet (74.68 m) while at Woodlawn, and his achievements earned him a spot in the Sports Illustrated article Faces In The Crowd. Bradshaw’s replacement as Woodlawn’s starting quarterback was Joe Ferguson of the Buffalo Bills, another future NFL star. In a 1974 divisional playoff game, Bradshaw’s Steelers defeated Ferguson’s Bills.
Terry Bradshaw Personal Life
Bradshaw has had four marriages. From 1972 to 1973, he was married to Melissa Babish (Miss Teenage America, 1969, from 1976 to 1983, to ice skater JoJo Starbuck, and from 1983 to 1999, to family attorney Charla Hopkins, with whom he had two daughters, Erin and Rachel.
Erin Bradshaw is a champion paint and quarter-horse trainer who graduated with honors from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Rachel Bradshaw is a Belmont University alumna and the widow of former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas. She starred in Nashville (2007), a reality television series about young singers trying to make it in Nashville. Bradshaw’s first three marriages all ended in divorce, a topic he routinely mocks on his NFL pre-game show. Bradshaw married Tammy, his fiancée of 15 years, for the fourth time on July 8, 2014.
In 1979, Bradshaw Bradshaw revealed after his NFL career ended that he frequently experienced anxiety attacks following games. After his third divorce in the late 1990s, he stated that he “could not bounce back” as he had after the previous divorces or after a terrible game. His symptoms included weight loss, frequent sobbing, and sleeplessness, in addition to anxiety attacks. Clinical depression was identified in him. He has been taking Paxil on a daily basis since then. He chose to speak out about his depression in order to dispel the stigma surrounding it and to encourage others to seek help.
Bradshaw’s fears of appearing in public, outside of the controlled setting of a television studio, resulted in an inadvertent alienation from the Steelers. Bradshaw did not attend the funeral of team founder and owner Art Rooney in 1988. Bradshaw paid tribute to his late boss and friend a year later during his Hall of Fame induction speech, pointing to the sky and saying, “Art Rooney… boy, I tell you, I loved that man.”
Terry Bradshaw Divorce
Terry Bradshaw had four marriages and three divorces. Tammy Bradshaw is his current wife, whom he married in 2014. He has two daughters, Rachel and Erin.
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