TERRY Bradshaw was handed a victory on Fox NFL Sunday – because his opponent was absent.
The 76-year-old broadcaster was looking ahead to a massive prime time showdown in Week 5.
Bradshaw was a four-time Super Bowl champion during his 13-year career as Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.
His show co-star Jimmy Johnson, meanwhile, won two Super Bowls as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Week 5’s Sunday night matchup saw the two storied franchises go against each other.
And that brought up a graphic which pitted Steelers legend Bradshaw and Cowboys icon Johnson head to head.
A tale of the tape flashed up on the Fox NFL Sunday screen.
The graphic showed that the Steelers had won six Super Bowls in history compared to five by the Cowboys.
It then compared the number of Hall of Famers between the two.
And that was a dead heat with each team having 32 members in the exclusive club.
There then was a tie-breaker on Bradshaw and Johnson’s hair.
But Johnson wasn’t there to defend himself as he was absent from Fox NFL Sunday again.
And a confident Bradshaw declared, “Jimmy, you wouldn’t have a prayer.”
Show host Curt Menefee stepped in to award Bradshaw the victory.
“Jimmy is not here today so you get the win,” Menefee said.
Bradshaw then previewed the Steelers-Cowboys clash.
He drew on his experience of playing at quarterback in the 1970s and 1980s.
The original Tom Brady
Tom Brady was left lost for words after Terry Bradshaw admitted he used his identity.
Host Curt Menefee drew Brady’s attention to a 1983 newspaper report that a man called Thomas Brady underwent surgery.
That was actually Bradshaw while he was still in his playing days with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Bradshaw won four Super Bowls in his 13-year career under center in Pittsburgh.
The former Steelers quarterback explained, “When I checked in they said ‘you’re not going to get checked in under your name because you’ll get hassled, what do you want to go under?’
“I said, ‘Put me under Thomas Brady.’
“That’s how it happened.”
“Of all the teams I’ve played against, nothing compared to the Dallas Cowboys because they were Super Bowl champions,” Bradshaw said.
“They had computers, they had lineman jumping up and sitting down, they had flex-motion plays.
“We had never seen anything like that.
“You sit there and scratch your head wondering what to do and then you go “boom” right in the face with physicality.
“I hate the word physicality but that’s what I’m going to use because that’s how we played them.”
